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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:07 am
by NcongruNt
Humanphibian wrote:Same effect can be had with a little water and some dry ice pellets. Put a little of each in a P.E.T.E. soda bottle and screw on the lid. The bottle will expand in size approx 3x before........ :shock:


lots of BOOM and a little soft shrapnel....probably pretty dangerous up close, but Mr. Darwin always told me to stand back when I was blowing something up :twisted:
Liquid Nitrogen will do the same thing, though it's a lot harder to come by for most folks.

My chemistry teacher demonstrated this for us out in front of the school during my sophmore year back in... 1994. I wonder if they still do it, or it's been equated to teaching children how to be terrorists nowadays. I miss making things in in chemistry class and then figuring out what it was I had made.

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:21 am
by Humanphibian
Yip probably a BIG no-no these days.

Just an FYI on top of that.....NEVER put one in a mailbox as a joke!

(hint: is is a FEDERAL crime, and they will come lookin fer ya :twisted: )