what do you think would happen if we
dripped concentrated sulfuric acid onto
the head without I’ve been reading a
book that says you can use this
technique as an improvised pyrotechnic
igniter so the purpose of this
experiment is to find out whether or not
that will really happen will sulfuric
acid ignite a match let’s put it to the
test
it might recognize this jar of sulfuric
acid from a previous video where we
extracted it from my car battery so if
your Casa drank very high on the pH
scale it’s a very reactive acid
especially when it’s in concentrated
form and that’s why we’re taking safety
precautions today I’ve also got a bowl
of baking soda water standing by here
baking soda will help neutralize the
acid if we spill any in fact we take a
couple of drops and just drip it down in
the center you can see it immediately
reacts and neutralize the acid so this
is our back-up plan in case anything
goes wrong today I’m using a little
plastic pipette here this plastic is not
reactive with sulfuric acid and we don’t
need much we’re just going to grab a
couple of drops there and hold it in the
tip you can see if I squeeze it we can
get it to come out one drop at a time
now according to my book we should be
able to take one drop of sulfuric acid
and put on the match head and watch a
person to flames but instead you can see
it just sits there this is very
interesting I’m definitely seeing the
sulfuric acid reacting with the magic it
is bubbling and it changes color if it
gets down onto the matchstick it
actually soaks some of the moisture out
of the wood and chars it in terms of
brown but our matches are not bursting
in a flame and that’s what we’re looking
for I can actually smell some fumes
coming off of that so there is some
reaction taking place you can see some
discoloration we add a little bit more
acid see if that’ll speed the reaction
but that’s kind of disappointing isn’t
it so match in this condition doesn’t
seem to very easily burst into flames
now interestingly enough I have a friend
called nurdrage who put up a video
recently as well doing the same
experiment I don’t know if he’s reading
the same books as me but he tried the
same experiment and what he found is
that using laboratory grade sulfuric
acid you actually can get a reaction but
you did a follow-up video showing that
actually took a lot of different tries
and a lot of different fails before
someone
as will go up nurdrage did get it to
work how everybody failed more times
than he succeeded I’d like to see a
little more reliable method for igniting
matches with sulfuric acid and I think
I’ve come up with a little trick that’ll
do just that now I’m playing around I
figured out a way to make this work 100%
of the time with a slight modification
and all you’re going to need is a plate
a spoon and a couple of matches from
your matchbox I find what works well for
me is to place my finger into the spoon
and then crush the match head on two of
its sides and then you can use the side
of the spoon just to scrape off all that
match head powder and remove any pieces
of wood now if we take the back of the
spoon and just crush this into a fine
powder it’s going to increase the
surface area which will make it a lot
more reactive with the acid all right
we’ll make a nice little pile and the
match head powder is a lot finer now
that should make a big difference UDS
ah that’s a dramatic difference dudu
dhruv’s
now the head of your safety matches are
very small but they contain an amazing
array of chemicals not only is their
potassium chlorate but there’s also a
wood glue start sulfur carbon and a few
other materials that act as a fuel
tell facilitated reaction we strike a
match so what exactly is happening to
get the match to ignite according to my
friend nerd ridge the sulfuric acid
reacts with the potassium chlorate to
form an acid called chloric acid chloric
acid is very unstable and the reaction
generates enough heat to ignite the
fuels in the match head and make it
spontaneously combust beautiful and of
course the more about how do you use the
bigger your reaction will be very nice
this is going to be good
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now this kind of match acid igniter
could be used for all kinds of
applications not just chemistry
experiments but if you bring up some
kind of an acid time delay you can drip
acid on here and use the tube negative
fireworks safety fees for setting off
pyrotechnics and fireworks
[Music]
I check this out just for fun I whipped
up a batch of pyrotechnic play buttons
using some of our initiated let’s go
drops yourself here at gas it on this
thing and see how it reacts
[Music]
[Music]
that’s in smoke bombs
whoa
[Music]
very cool
so there you have a guy’s a simple
modification for making match heads
react with sulfuric acid to make a cool
pyrotechnic visible eh hey thanks so
much for joining me for this experiment
I’ll be looking for you the next one
talk to you then what
[Music]
dripped concentrated sulfuric acid onto
the head without I’ve been reading a
book that says you can use this
technique as an improvised pyrotechnic
igniter so the purpose of this
experiment is to find out whether or not
that will really happen will sulfuric
acid ignite a match let’s put it to the
test
it might recognize this jar of sulfuric
acid from a previous video where we
extracted it from my car battery so if
your Casa drank very high on the pH
scale it’s a very reactive acid
especially when it’s in concentrated
form and that’s why we’re taking safety
precautions today I’ve also got a bowl
of baking soda water standing by here
baking soda will help neutralize the
acid if we spill any in fact we take a
couple of drops and just drip it down in
the center you can see it immediately
reacts and neutralize the acid so this
is our back-up plan in case anything
goes wrong today I’m using a little
plastic pipette here this plastic is not
reactive with sulfuric acid and we don’t
need much we’re just going to grab a
couple of drops there and hold it in the
tip you can see if I squeeze it we can
get it to come out one drop at a time
now according to my book we should be
able to take one drop of sulfuric acid
and put on the match head and watch a
person to flames but instead you can see
it just sits there this is very
interesting I’m definitely seeing the
sulfuric acid reacting with the magic it
is bubbling and it changes color if it
gets down onto the matchstick it
actually soaks some of the moisture out
of the wood and chars it in terms of
brown but our matches are not bursting
in a flame and that’s what we’re looking
for I can actually smell some fumes
coming off of that so there is some
reaction taking place you can see some
discoloration we add a little bit more
acid see if that’ll speed the reaction
but that’s kind of disappointing isn’t
it so match in this condition doesn’t
seem to very easily burst into flames
now interestingly enough I have a friend
called nurdrage who put up a video
recently as well doing the same
experiment I don’t know if he’s reading
the same books as me but he tried the
same experiment and what he found is
that using laboratory grade sulfuric
acid you actually can get a reaction but
you did a follow-up video showing that
actually took a lot of different tries
and a lot of different fails before
someone
as will go up nurdrage did get it to
work how everybody failed more times
than he succeeded I’d like to see a
little more reliable method for igniting
matches with sulfuric acid and I think
I’ve come up with a little trick that’ll
do just that now I’m playing around I
figured out a way to make this work 100%
of the time with a slight modification
and all you’re going to need is a plate
a spoon and a couple of matches from
your matchbox I find what works well for
me is to place my finger into the spoon
and then crush the match head on two of
its sides and then you can use the side
of the spoon just to scrape off all that
match head powder and remove any pieces
of wood now if we take the back of the
spoon and just crush this into a fine
powder it’s going to increase the
surface area which will make it a lot
more reactive with the acid all right
we’ll make a nice little pile and the
match head powder is a lot finer now
that should make a big difference UDS
ah that’s a dramatic difference dudu
dhruv’s
now the head of your safety matches are
very small but they contain an amazing
array of chemicals not only is their
potassium chlorate but there’s also a
wood glue start sulfur carbon and a few
other materials that act as a fuel
tell facilitated reaction we strike a
match so what exactly is happening to
get the match to ignite according to my
friend nerd ridge the sulfuric acid
reacts with the potassium chlorate to
form an acid called chloric acid chloric
acid is very unstable and the reaction
generates enough heat to ignite the
fuels in the match head and make it
spontaneously combust beautiful and of
course the more about how do you use the
bigger your reaction will be very nice
this is going to be good
[Music]
now this kind of match acid igniter
could be used for all kinds of
applications not just chemistry
experiments but if you bring up some
kind of an acid time delay you can drip
acid on here and use the tube negative
fireworks safety fees for setting off
pyrotechnics and fireworks
[Music]
I check this out just for fun I whipped
up a batch of pyrotechnic play buttons
using some of our initiated let’s go
drops yourself here at gas it on this
thing and see how it reacts
[Music]
[Music]
that’s in smoke bombs
whoa
[Music]
very cool
so there you have a guy’s a simple
modification for making match heads
react with sulfuric acid to make a cool
pyrotechnic visible eh hey thanks so
much for joining me for this experiment
I’ll be looking for you the next one
talk to you then what
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