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Toilet bowl cleaners are typically hydrochloric acid [HCl] and some detergents. Add this to aluminum and it produces hydrogen.
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Watching Mentos chewy candies produce shooting geysers when placed into a bottle of soda makes for an educational science project. In addition to performing the demonstration, you can explain the scientific factors that cause the shooting fountains.
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Shut up And Explode is by Boom Boom Satellites. They are a Japanese electronic music duo (Michiyuki Kawashima & Masayuki Nakano).
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Lead-acid batteries can source of fuel for external explosions or explode internally. Charging a wet lead-acid battery produces hydrogen and oxygen gasses as electrolysis of the water occurs. That is why charging needs to occur in well ventilated
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Thankfully, it is physically impossible for a nuclear power plant to explode like a nuclear bomb. It simply doesn't have the right kinds of materials: A fission bomb uses highly enriched uranium or plutonium (90%+ of U-235 or Pu-239), while a
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Light bulbs do not contain explosives, and as such, cannot explode. Cold temperatures may crack a bulb, however.
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What makes hydrogen flammable is one of the three things that will keep a fire going--oxygen. Neither pure hydrogen nor pure oxygen by themselves will burn. However, if hydrogen is given an oxidizer, and oxygen is given a reducer (i.e., they two
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In a typical galaxy like our Milky Way, a supernova pops off about every 100 years. From our earthly vantagepoint, we cannot see every supernova that occurs in our galaxy because interstellar dust obscures our sight. The Kepler supernova, which
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The combustion of liquid gasoline is actually the gasoline vapour burning above the liquid phase. For an explosion to occur, the mixture of air and flammable vapour needs to be at a certain ratio and what happens is you get a very rapid burning
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Because they are often carrying large quantities of combustible jet fuel when they land, and if anything during the landing causes the fuel tanks to rupture and spill, there is going to be plenty of hot metal around to act as ignition sources. This
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