Making And Testing An Atypical Explosive: Silver Acetylide
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- The energetic silver acetylide can be made by driving acetylene gas through a solution of silver nitrate and weak nitric acid. The precipitate that's formed is silver acetylide. It can be set off using either friction, impact or fire. In the small quantities its typically made in, it's not stored but used up in demonstrations as is the case here.
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Excellent video thanks for the education with out losing a finger
Absolutely love your explanations, you are a natural teacher. There’s a couple things that I think are not quite right though. In the first reaction, I think the silver nitrate simply dissolves in the nitric acid solution, without the formation of hydrogen and NO3. Also, I think the overall reaction results in the production of the “double salt” of silver acetylide and silver nitrate. This has a higher detonation velocity than the one you quoted, which is for pure silver acetylide. It’s been a while since I played around with stuff like this, but that seems to be right to my memory. Anyway, goes bang either way. Fun stuff!
I appreciate your input. Thank you!
Your procedure is well defined and the math is well explained. Thank you.
Thanks. I like your videos. I like the fact you describe the reactions prior to doing the reaction.
Reactions are fine and all that, but I just go straight to the explosions :-)
I appreciate that!
As I have posted on other chem videos, some of us are older and have forgotten a lot of college chemistry if we did not work in that field.
This is how those novelty fireworks are made..like cigarette loads and snap caps
As far as I know, the distinction between deflagration and detonation refers to speed of sound in given explosive material, not air, compared to speed of flame front again in said explosive. As for the heat, that reaches target faster than sound, it's because it's radiated, hence travels with the speed of light.
I did this thing once, it exploded very loudly! You can also try copper (I) acetylide, that’s also a good stuff!
Когда-то получал я эту штуку, вместо чистого нитрат серебра брал ляписный карандаш из аптеки, ну а карбида тогда везде полно было (прям на улице можно было найти). Можно еще ацетиленид меди (I) сделать, тоже нормас тема!
I am terrible at math. But somehow, I still understood some of what you taught. This video is excellent! I had so much fun watching! I loved the end.
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This one is a little to the left of NI3 sensitive when dry, similar to AgN3 in sensitivity but less powerful.
Its pretty impressive stuff considering it does not have any nitrogen at all within it!
Great Video!
Cound you make a video on making persulfates with electrolysis? There doesn't seem to be that much Information online or atleast a proper Video.
This is super interesting. I'm more attentive to how this looks like a pathway for recovering nitric acid from a nitrated salt waste.
Is there any viability in that thought, or do other metal acetylides just not form with this method?
I did a quick look and you can make other metal acetylides, but the most common are alkali acecylides, used as catalysts or intermediate for ethynyls, but all of those propose the acecylides as the desired product, where I'm interested in recovering nitric acid from waste nitrates.
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I suppose you cpuodve done 10 times as much reagents and youdve gotten closer to that equation's mark, but obviouspy its not that important and you didn't have to waste that. Thanks for the videos. I've seen this done before, but it's always cool to see another person do the experiments I've witnessed others do. Thank you ❤
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Evidently the nitric acid can be recycled and re-used, reducing cost.
By the way, I think you seem to be making the double salt here... am I right about that?
Yes you are correct
Yup, the acetylene forms an insoluble salt with the silver making free nitric acid in the process.
Question! I dissolved 1 gram of silver wire in nitric acid. This took about 24 hours. Beautiful whitish precipitate when the acetylene was introduced. Now that the powder is dry however it doesn't go boom when I light it? It just turns to something like a ball of ash. Doesn't melt at all. There's not one hint of deflagration or detonation. The product is very white, fine and powdery. Looks like chalk. Any thoughts?
I think whatever is forming (whitish precipitate) isn't silver acetylide. 1 gm of silver would produce approx. 1.5 gms of silver nitrate. A very small amount. This silver nitrate, when dried and solid, would have to be then again dissolved in a very weak nitric acid solution according to the ratios shown in the video. Once it is dissolved again, the acetylene gas is bubbled through it. I sense that the whitish ppt may only be silver nitrate.
Why is the first reaction (3:40) written as AgNO3 + 2HNO3 -> Ag + 3NO3- + 2H+ instead of AgNO3 -> Ag+ + NO3- ?
Great job! What will happen next time Silver azide, Lead azide, Nickel hydrazine nitrate, TATP, HMTD?
Thinking...