in today’s video we’re going to see what
happens when you try to boil superglue
and we’ll try and answer the question is
superglue flammable superglue is super
interesting stuff
also known as cyanoacrylate this glue
works form a very quick and strong bond
most people have only used or bought
superglue in some very small quantities
it often comes in tiny tubes that only
have a few drops in them but we’ve
gotten our hands on an 8 ounce container
of superglue that’s a full cup of
superglue all in one spot there are a
few different things I would really like
to try using this much superglue the
first thing I want to try is heating it
up I want to see if you can boil
superglue and if you can what happens to
it here’s the basic idea we’re going to
empty 8 ounces of our superglue into a
saucepan that won’t be used for anything
else then boil it on a hot plate what do
you think is going to happen will the
superglue just evaporate will it catch
on fire or do you think it’s going to
explode we’re doing this outside today
because even if you aren’t boiling it
super glue puts off some pretty powerful
fumes it can irritate your throat your
eyes and your skin and I figure that
when we heat it up those fumes are gonna
be multiplied by quite a bit and I
really don’t want that in any confined
space so we’re in a nice open area we’ve
even got a fair breeze passing through
which should make it easy to avoid
breathing in any of these fumes first a
very quick test as to the stickiness of
my gloves and my gloves and now glue it
together peel apart it does the exact
same thing if you get it on your skin
but it really hurts to try and peel it
apart this much super glue is actually
fairly dangerous because if this got on
you in any large quantities it could
require medical intervention to get it
off like if this were to spill all over
my clothing it could stick my clothing
onto my skin and I wouldn’t be able to
pull it off so I have to be very careful
not to get any of this on you this stuff
is amazingly thin and clear it really
just looks like water I don’t want to
waste this super glue but just because
I’ve never actually seen this much super
glue out of a container in one spot you
got to play with it a little bit I’m
gonna feel slightly slightly oily on my
fingers right now which I’m sure would
glue together if I tell them you can see
little bits where it’s been done you
could glue as it dries out it’s just it
just feels like you know water or thin
oil it’s pretty nuts you see if I can
I am NOT holding on to this rock it’s
holding on to me really the glue hasn’t
completely cured so I can probably pull
my fingers apart and make it drop the
rock let’s try it kind of all right
since I don’t want my movement
permanently arrested I’m gonna take this
glove off and put anyway we’re ready to
turn on our stove but I’ve got one more
thing I want to do just to protect
everything before I do that and that’s
just to put a sheet of foil over our hot
plate in case the superglue boils up and
out or something like that I don’t want
to spill superglue all over this plate
so just one piece of foil going across
the top that’s it all right let’s turn
this on to low the breeze we’ve got
going on might make this take a little
bit longer than normal I’m not sure
we’ll be able to tell the difference
since I’ve never boil superglue before I
don’t even know if it will boil it might
just heat up for light on fire smoke a
[Music]
we’ve got fumes I don’t think I can call
that steam since I don’t think
cyanoacrylate glue contains any water
but it’s vapor of some kind yes yeah hmm
oh boy oh that that went from zero to
extremely powerful in no time at all oh
good thing we are not doing this indoors
or I’m pretty sure the whole indoors
got me again I was upwind we’ve got some
good white vapor coming off of the
saucepan with the superglue in it but I
want to try turning the heat up it’s not
really changing much it’s been doing the
same little bit of vapor thing for like
five minutes now I think it needs more
heat let’s take it up to medium fun fact
superglue was developed while trying to
find a way to make custom lenses very
breezy oh we are starting to get some
bubbles at the bottom of the pan and it
looks a lot like when you’re heating up
water so maybe this is gonna boil I want
to help it along
so it’s been on medium for almost 10
minutes now I think it’s time that we
turn it up to high all right a lot of
white vapor and as my cameraman and I
can both attest sex if you get too near
so glad it’s breezy since we’ve got a
nice steady stream of air going that way
I can get a nice up close to it put it
stick in it ooh I hear bubbly noises see
bubbly things a little bit there’s so
much of this vapor now hard to get close
to it and really look at what’s going on
in there even though the vapor is being
taken away this fast I can’t really see
much down into the bottom oh it’s so
fast in its pane just a tiny bit of it
goes toward your face and all the sudden
it stings kids do not try this at home
or at a friend’s house or in some random
yard just don’t try this you’ll get that
vapor all over you and it will suck
that’s some good boiling action going on
in there now that’s that we can see it
through the vapor oh man it’s almost
gone like most of this is burning away
and it’s kind of a yellowish green color
in there now had no color when we
started very clear looked just like
water oh wow it’s evenly this and goopy
stuff I can got strings of it coming off
on the stick oh I think we are just
about out superglue is all boiled and
burned away the fumes certainly seem to
be gone all that’s left is a very sticky
not glue sticky but like gooey residue
at the bottom of this pan when heck of a
nonstick coating
you can superglue isn’t sticking to it
this is the result of boiling away one
entire cup of cyanoacrylate glue there’s
this residue stuff which has really lost
most of that power that super glue has
like putting it near my nose breathing
in I can smell the superglue smell but
it’s not burning it’s not making my eyes
water pretty mild compared to even just
a normal little bottle of superglue if
you just smell that usually it’ll make
you flinch it’s kind of acrid burns the
inside of your nose a little bit this is
just yeah it smells kind of like
superglue I’m not gonna taste it I taste
a lot of things not gonna taste this
that’s amazing how much of it is gone so
that means most of what’s in superglue
can be boiled away some white powdery
residue up on the sides that looks like
it might have built up just from the
vapor rather than the liquid
disappearing we do have some more
superglue and there’s one more test I
want to try with it right now and that’s
just to see what happens if we apply a
more direct heat is superglue flammable
we’re gonna pour some superglue down
into the saucepan then take a blowtorch
oh I think I did it that’s that’s it
superglue is flammable it doesn’t light
quite like gasoline or even alcohol it
took a little bit of time to really
catch but once it caught it seems to be
burning quite nicely whoo now all of the
superglue is hot enough that it’s
boiling in the saucepan when we heated
the saucepan up on the stove we had a
lot of very thick white smoke that
burned my nose and my eyes and my lungs
if I even got a little whiff of it and
this is burning and it’s boiling I don’t
see any white smoke so I think the
vapors themselves coming off of the
superglue or getting burned up and are
therefore not able to react the same way
if it gets in my face a little bit it
kind of smells like I don’t know it kind
of smells a little bit like some
fireworks oh and there’s the white stuff
and we don’t want any of that that is
the result of lighting superglue on fire
yeah it really does have a skunk smell
to it
eating superglue on a stove until it
boils and lighting it on fire
interesting results from both of them
here’s a challenge what are some things
we could do with large quantities of
superglue that we haven’t already
thought of liquid nitrogen I already
thought about it vacuum chamber I
already thought about it
dry-ice already thought about it furnace
I already thought about it
give us something new we want you to get
creative with this one tell us your
thoughts and if we use an idea of yours
that we haven’t already come up with
will send you 25 bucks guys we still
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happens when you try to boil superglue
and we’ll try and answer the question is
superglue flammable superglue is super
interesting stuff
also known as cyanoacrylate this glue
works form a very quick and strong bond
most people have only used or bought
superglue in some very small quantities
it often comes in tiny tubes that only
have a few drops in them but we’ve
gotten our hands on an 8 ounce container
of superglue that’s a full cup of
superglue all in one spot there are a
few different things I would really like
to try using this much superglue the
first thing I want to try is heating it
up I want to see if you can boil
superglue and if you can what happens to
it here’s the basic idea we’re going to
empty 8 ounces of our superglue into a
saucepan that won’t be used for anything
else then boil it on a hot plate what do
you think is going to happen will the
superglue just evaporate will it catch
on fire or do you think it’s going to
explode we’re doing this outside today
because even if you aren’t boiling it
super glue puts off some pretty powerful
fumes it can irritate your throat your
eyes and your skin and I figure that
when we heat it up those fumes are gonna
be multiplied by quite a bit and I
really don’t want that in any confined
space so we’re in a nice open area we’ve
even got a fair breeze passing through
which should make it easy to avoid
breathing in any of these fumes first a
very quick test as to the stickiness of
my gloves and my gloves and now glue it
together peel apart it does the exact
same thing if you get it on your skin
but it really hurts to try and peel it
apart this much super glue is actually
fairly dangerous because if this got on
you in any large quantities it could
require medical intervention to get it
off like if this were to spill all over
my clothing it could stick my clothing
onto my skin and I wouldn’t be able to
pull it off so I have to be very careful
not to get any of this on you this stuff
is amazingly thin and clear it really
just looks like water I don’t want to
waste this super glue but just because
I’ve never actually seen this much super
glue out of a container in one spot you
got to play with it a little bit I’m
gonna feel slightly slightly oily on my
fingers right now which I’m sure would
glue together if I tell them you can see
little bits where it’s been done you
could glue as it dries out it’s just it
just feels like you know water or thin
oil it’s pretty nuts you see if I can
I am NOT holding on to this rock it’s
holding on to me really the glue hasn’t
completely cured so I can probably pull
my fingers apart and make it drop the
rock let’s try it kind of all right
since I don’t want my movement
permanently arrested I’m gonna take this
glove off and put anyway we’re ready to
turn on our stove but I’ve got one more
thing I want to do just to protect
everything before I do that and that’s
just to put a sheet of foil over our hot
plate in case the superglue boils up and
out or something like that I don’t want
to spill superglue all over this plate
so just one piece of foil going across
the top that’s it all right let’s turn
this on to low the breeze we’ve got
going on might make this take a little
bit longer than normal I’m not sure
we’ll be able to tell the difference
since I’ve never boil superglue before I
don’t even know if it will boil it might
just heat up for light on fire smoke a
[Music]
we’ve got fumes I don’t think I can call
that steam since I don’t think
cyanoacrylate glue contains any water
but it’s vapor of some kind yes yeah hmm
oh boy oh that that went from zero to
extremely powerful in no time at all oh
good thing we are not doing this indoors
or I’m pretty sure the whole indoors
got me again I was upwind we’ve got some
good white vapor coming off of the
saucepan with the superglue in it but I
want to try turning the heat up it’s not
really changing much it’s been doing the
same little bit of vapor thing for like
five minutes now I think it needs more
heat let’s take it up to medium fun fact
superglue was developed while trying to
find a way to make custom lenses very
breezy oh we are starting to get some
bubbles at the bottom of the pan and it
looks a lot like when you’re heating up
water so maybe this is gonna boil I want
to help it along
so it’s been on medium for almost 10
minutes now I think it’s time that we
turn it up to high all right a lot of
white vapor and as my cameraman and I
can both attest sex if you get too near
so glad it’s breezy since we’ve got a
nice steady stream of air going that way
I can get a nice up close to it put it
stick in it ooh I hear bubbly noises see
bubbly things a little bit there’s so
much of this vapor now hard to get close
to it and really look at what’s going on
in there even though the vapor is being
taken away this fast I can’t really see
much down into the bottom oh it’s so
fast in its pane just a tiny bit of it
goes toward your face and all the sudden
it stings kids do not try this at home
or at a friend’s house or in some random
yard just don’t try this you’ll get that
vapor all over you and it will suck
that’s some good boiling action going on
in there now that’s that we can see it
through the vapor oh man it’s almost
gone like most of this is burning away
and it’s kind of a yellowish green color
in there now had no color when we
started very clear looked just like
water oh wow it’s evenly this and goopy
stuff I can got strings of it coming off
on the stick oh I think we are just
about out superglue is all boiled and
burned away the fumes certainly seem to
be gone all that’s left is a very sticky
not glue sticky but like gooey residue
at the bottom of this pan when heck of a
nonstick coating
you can superglue isn’t sticking to it
this is the result of boiling away one
entire cup of cyanoacrylate glue there’s
this residue stuff which has really lost
most of that power that super glue has
like putting it near my nose breathing
in I can smell the superglue smell but
it’s not burning it’s not making my eyes
water pretty mild compared to even just
a normal little bottle of superglue if
you just smell that usually it’ll make
you flinch it’s kind of acrid burns the
inside of your nose a little bit this is
just yeah it smells kind of like
superglue I’m not gonna taste it I taste
a lot of things not gonna taste this
that’s amazing how much of it is gone so
that means most of what’s in superglue
can be boiled away some white powdery
residue up on the sides that looks like
it might have built up just from the
vapor rather than the liquid
disappearing we do have some more
superglue and there’s one more test I
want to try with it right now and that’s
just to see what happens if we apply a
more direct heat is superglue flammable
we’re gonna pour some superglue down
into the saucepan then take a blowtorch
oh I think I did it that’s that’s it
superglue is flammable it doesn’t light
quite like gasoline or even alcohol it
took a little bit of time to really
catch but once it caught it seems to be
burning quite nicely whoo now all of the
superglue is hot enough that it’s
boiling in the saucepan when we heated
the saucepan up on the stove we had a
lot of very thick white smoke that
burned my nose and my eyes and my lungs
if I even got a little whiff of it and
this is burning and it’s boiling I don’t
see any white smoke so I think the
vapors themselves coming off of the
superglue or getting burned up and are
therefore not able to react the same way
if it gets in my face a little bit it
kind of smells like I don’t know it kind
of smells a little bit like some
fireworks oh and there’s the white stuff
and we don’t want any of that that is
the result of lighting superglue on fire
yeah it really does have a skunk smell
to it
eating superglue on a stove until it
boils and lighting it on fire
interesting results from both of them
here’s a challenge what are some things
we could do with large quantities of
superglue that we haven’t already
thought of liquid nitrogen I already
thought about it vacuum chamber I
already thought about it
dry-ice already thought about it furnace
I already thought about it
give us something new we want you to get
creative with this one tell us your
thoughts and if we use an idea of yours
that we haven’t already come up with
will send you 25 bucks guys we still
have more for you to see that little box
up at the top will transport you
directly to our last video if you
haven’t seen it you should go watch it
if you have seen it maybe watch it again
the box at the bottom will show you what
YouTube thinks you should be watching
next and this bomb here in the center
will subscribe you to our channel so you
never miss a video
don’t forget to ring that Bell and we
will see you in the next one talk to you then
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