Making Nitrogen Triiodide
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- This stuff is so sensitive that even a strong breeze can cause it to explode lightning fast. Or, a laser. It's sensitivity can be changed but only slightly. This is for demonstration purposes only. Please people, do not attempt.
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This experiment used to upset my mother so bad.
She did not like sudden pops or unexpected bangs, and my making of triiodide would upset her when it would be triggered by small air currents, and I was TOLD to stop making it!
Haha! Seems like a lot of young men made a mess of their homes, and parents, with this stuff.
I think it triggers spontaneously as it dries, and the little smear starts cracking as it shrinks. Tiny grains tend to not explode unexpectedly, but larger lumps always do.
You just gotta love nitrogen triiodide. Especially the lovely purple colours.
It was in the late 70's I was playing around with making this material. I had made a small batch, and taken it outside. As I walked back in I heard a sharp crack, and saw the pyrex beaker I had used to react the ingredients in fall into three pieces.
I learned the value of immediately washing my glassware when making nitrogen triiodide from that experience.
Sorry for that experience. For the most part in small quantities it isn't that powerful thankfully.
@@cranialconstruction2218 my college roomate reports that, back in early 1970s, one kid in high-school chem class made an entire petri-dish full of it. Perhaps tens of grams, done secretly wo/teacher knowing. It exploded in his hand, serious glass shrapnel injuries. Back then no internet info, just student-rumors and half-wrong instructions. Should we not make a half kilo? Only 50ccs couldn't be lethally dangerous, right, right?
Hobby method: used prill beads iodine, dunked under grocery-store ammonia. Poke it with a wood chopstick, and as it reacts, it turns blue-gray and falls apart. No grinding required. Keep poking until all the red color is gone, and fine blue-gray powder results (perhaps pour off excess ammonia solution, and add more, if some red color persists.) Then pour it all off onto paper towel, and rinse glassware immediately so it doesn't shatter.
IT EXPLODES WHEN WET! So claim several sources, but only if stored under water, and allowed to compact-ify itself over days/weeks.
Me, I once made up about a half cc, scattered over twenty small slips of paper (spaced 4in apart.) I kept poking one, to see if it was dry enough to trigger. THEY ALL WENT! I was too close, and temporarily lost hearing in one ear. So, if making several small smears, on separate bits of filter paper, even when slightly damp, still they need to be spaced FAR more than 4in apart!
Wow. Seriously. Thank you for sharing, we all can learn.
Where do you buy the pill beads?
I wonder what would be learned if a high speed XRF gun was pointed at the decay field, or a high speed spectrophotometer. Perhaps the xrays or light would be able to map the progression of molecular evolution.
Yes, that would be interesting indeed!
Just fold the stupid coffee filter over the rim of the container to stop it from dropping
What concentrations is the ammonia? I 30%
The concentration of ammonia doesn't matter that much. I used 10% in this video. If you used a lower percentage you only need to leave the iodine crystals longer.
Kind of like Armstrongs Mix
Yes, but this is much much more sensitive to friction.