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Post by kilisa09 on Jan 13, 2006 18:34:44 GMT -5
Cool...I remember once, we went camping, there were a whole bunch of dead pines all over, still with a ton of pine needles on them, so I'd snap off a branch and light it on fire from the campfire. It was freaking cool...
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Post by InsanexBandit on Jan 13, 2006 21:48:42 GMT -5
Oooh, cool. I remember this one time, where my family was having this campfire thing, and the dirt was doing some weird thing to the fire. I'd toss some in the small flames, and it'd go down and then go all FWOOSH. It was pretty awesome.
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Post by raptor-chick on Jan 14, 2006 0:15:38 GMT -5
Spiffy! I love burning things. I like throwing marshmallows in the fire and watching them grow. I heard that if you burn certain substances, the flames will turn different colors. Like blue and green and scarlet. I gotta find out what next time I go camping... I also save old CDs that don't work anymore and melt them into neat shapes.
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Post by Mullet Fish on Jan 14, 2006 14:04:16 GMT -5
Cool...I remember once, we went camping, there were a whole bunch of dead pines all over, still with a ton of pine needles on them, so I'd snap off a branch and light it on fire from the campfire. It was freaking cool... Whoa! Something sort of like that happened to me. We were on this summer camp, and all the kids were in one campsite while the supervisors were in another one, and we found a dead pine tree and tossed them on the fire one at a time. The flames went huge, and the supervisors became alarmed, so they told us to stop, but we already had this huge pile gathered, and we didn't want to waste it so we threw it all on at once. I swear, the flame went like, 8 feet high. It was awesome. We lost our fire privileges though. That didn't stop us from filling a juice box with butane for the stove and lighting it in the bush. It wasn't very exciting until I stepped on it. The three foot long jet of flame was pretty sweet. Man, we played with fire so much during that camp. One guy was an idiot though, and started pouring gas out of the tank onto the fire. The flames started travelling up the stream towards the tank, and we had to push him away from the fire when the flame was only like, a few inches from the tank. It was also quite disappointing when we threw an aersol can of bug spray into the fire, and we all like, took cover, then nothing happened. It was like, five minutes before I walked over to the fire and fished it out with a stick. I think it was because it was mostly empty that it didn't explode.
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Post by kilisa09 on Jan 17, 2006 20:06:32 GMT -5
You lucky ducky, you.
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Post by InsanexBandit on Jan 22, 2006 1:18:19 GMT -5
Spiffy! I love burning things. I like throwing marshmallows in the fire and watching them grow. I heard that if you burn certain substances, the flames will turn different colors. Like blue and green and scarlet. I gotta find out what next time I go camping... I also save old CDs that don't work anymore and melt them into neat shapes. Oooh, CD sculptures. Yesh, I've seen green flames before. Looked pretty awesome. It was for bio. My teacher clears this table and covers it with...iron dust or something like that. Iron or copper...I think it was copper. Anyways, he lights it on fire and there's all this green flames and the whole class is going "Woooo" and he extingushes it with his hands. IT was pretty cool.
Oooh awesome, throwing trees into a fire. But wow that'd would've been awesome if the can exploded. Super dangerous, but awesome nonetheless.
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Post by Mullet Fish on Jan 22, 2006 16:56:08 GMT -5
I don't consider myself lucky. It was so anti-climactic. We were all tense, anticipating it, and nothing happened. It was like, boooo!
Insane understands. Us guys like to see stuff blow up, even if it puts us in danger. I've never seen anything blow up in person before. I won't be complete until I do, either. It just occured to me that I need to write an essay. I'll do it tomorrow at lunch. Sorry, off-topic. Wait, what the hell am I doing? This discussion hasn't been on-topic for about 10 pages now. XD
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Post by Ravenmaster on Jan 22, 2006 17:32:44 GMT -5
This is true. I was telling my dad a couple weeks ago about the forum and how we get so off topic. Dad: I'd kick you if you did that in my forum Me: T.T But it'd hurt! Dad: No, I mean kick you out. Ban you for a few days. Me: oh...poo.
setting stuff on fire is really fun XD. this summer me and my friend Boo stole a lighter from her house and we were burning sticks from the park grounds. THen we went to the church basement and started melting plastic sthingys. Boo: Lets set your house on fire Me:...but I live there Boo: Oh....so?
Thats when I took official charge of the lighter.
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Post by InsanexBandit on Jan 22, 2006 23:01:46 GMT -5
Lol you guys. XD. I've sorta seen an explosion. A super mini one. Where my friend (during Bio) was accidently heating up a rubber stopper, and it like, exploded. It was cool. But I want to see a big one in real like too. Without anyone getting seriously hurt. Hmm...I'm going to try to remember if I ever saw one.
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Post by raptor-chick on Jan 23, 2006 1:34:00 GMT -5
My chemistry teacher was doing this experiment in grade 11 where he put a piece of elemental sodium in distilled water and it burned. It was so cool! He told us that once, this guy asked him what would happen if he sprayed water on top of the sodium while it was burning away merrily in the beaker, so he did and the beaker exploded. He also told us about how some kids in university stole a chunk of sodium the size of a baseball and threw it in a lake to see what would happen and then it shot across the lake and sank someone's boat. I want to see something explode too, and not just a boring firework. I want to see something good blow up! Maybe a car or a small child...
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Post by Mullet Fish on Jan 23, 2006 16:33:49 GMT -5
Potassium is more reactive than sodium. Sodium burns, but potassium like, explodes. It was so cool. I think you meant potassium. I thought sodium was the one that fizzed around the petrie dish for awhile. They get more reactive as you go down the group of elements. I think Francium is the one at the bottom, but it's radioactive. It has to do with the valence electrons being farther from the nucleus, and thus making it easier for other elements to grab them, causing them to react. You could get and even more violent reaction if you comined it with something that had 7 valence electrons, so in the 17th (?) group, near the top, because the nucleus would be so close to the valence shell the reaction would be incredibly forceful. I forget what we worked out the best reaction to be. It was like, francium and...iodine? No, Fluorine! ;D I'm sorry, I just like chemistry.
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Post by Ravenmaster on Jan 23, 2006 19:46:45 GMT -5
Brad...you just said a bunch of words. The only thing I got out of it was explosion and the word "the".
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Post by kilisa09 on Jan 23, 2006 23:40:27 GMT -5
Lol.
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Post by Mullet Fish on Jan 24, 2006 20:50:28 GMT -5
Heh heh heh. It's just grade 9 chemistry. It's not that complicated. You'll learn it in grade 9. That was unpredictable.
Oh, and my friend in grade 11 told me that Cesium was used in classes in the 80s or something, but too many bad things happened, because it would sometimes react to the air if it was too humid. That being said, I think Francium would almost always react to the moisture in the air, making it incredibly dangerous. ... Sweeeet.
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Post by InsanexBandit on Jan 24, 2006 21:27:44 GMT -5
Ooooh deadly stuff! I think the worst stuff I worked on was either sulfuric acid, or this....thing. It looked like salt, except it was saffron. I think. And apparently, if you touched it, you would get cancer. Man, my teacher loves to freak us out. Oh, story time =D. So I was working with the sulfuric acid with my partner, and it's in this big graduated cyclinder. So I turn around (my partner is sitting down) and my elbow hits the cyclinder and it all spills on my partner, all over his legs. Man, I felt like crap that day XD. He's alright...I'm pretty sure. It was last year.
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