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| 18 Oct 2012 10:13 PM |
1. Get a water bottle. 2. Pour a little bit of rubbing alcohol into it. 3. Shake it up. 4. Pour all of the rubbing alcohol out. 5. Hold the bottle up-right with the lid still off. 6. Light a match. 7. Stick it above the water bottle. 8. After a strange noise, turn the bottle upsidedown and voila! Water will come out of it.
Basically what's happening is that the heat from the fire is adding enough energy for the rubbing alcohol vapors still left in the bottle (isopropyl alcohol [C3H8O]) to react with the oxygen in the air (O2). This reaction breaks up and rearranges the bonds to create carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O).
__H_H_H __|_|_| H-C-C-C-HO __|_|_| __H_H_H
That's isopropyl. Which the chemical reaction breaks it down to produce:
H-O-H
and
O=C=O |
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| 18 Oct 2012 10:29 PM |
i tried it it shot a fireball out of the bottle mouth scared the poo outta me |
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| 18 Oct 2012 10:32 PM |
@legoseed Did you get water? Water is basically the result of burnt hydrogen.
I didn't think it would shoot fire at all. You must have put WAY too much in there. Or maybe the alcohol was really like, drinking alcohol and not rubbing alcohol like I said. Or maybe you used ethanol rubbing alcohol. That might react badly. I really don't know, though. |
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| 18 Oct 2012 10:32 PM |
| Thus leaving the water you could have just gotten originally. |
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| 18 Oct 2012 10:33 PM |
Sounds... dangerous.
you have activated my trap card |
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| 18 Oct 2012 10:34 PM |
@Chaos What happens if you are trapped somewhere and you don't have access to water, but do have access to basic house-hold supplies like rubbing alcohol and lighters (or other things to start fires, like batteries + tinfoil/bubblegum rappers)? You can make water.
Plus, it's fun! Making molecules is fun. |
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| 18 Oct 2012 10:36 PM |
| Hes trying to kill us with science. |
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| 18 Oct 2012 10:39 PM |
Btw, mixing atoms does not always make molecules. NaCl, or table salt, is not a molecule.
You can make some of these as well. Simply take an iron nail and submerge it in water for an extended period of time. The water (H2O) will slowly react with the iron (Fe) to eventually form an ionic compound of Fe2O3, otherwise known as rust. |
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| 18 Oct 2012 10:47 PM |
@thenoob seen worse next
you have activated my trap card |
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