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Its not shure if this is correct but it seems to be alanagous to what happens when heamoglobyn is explosed to Carbon Monoxide. It seems that it bonds with the receptors and stops them form working correctly though I am not shure about this Cheers, Ryan Jones

Exactly, like I said we are probably not allowed to post how you do / make this stuff here but I can say if you want to make rust (AKA [ce]Fe_2O_3[/ce], AKA Iron(III) Oxide) fast all you need to do is stick Iron Wool in Hydrogen Peroxide, that'll do the job and fast too A quick search for thermite on Google wil turn up some interesting results but don't try this unless you are shure what you are doing and are shure you have very pure chemicals! Otherwise you could be looking at some moltern iron burns or worse... Its a brilliant thing to watch (And do) but only if you are shure of your safety and everyone elses safety too Cheers, Ryan Jones

I can give you the answers to those but I'd rather not as you'd learn nothing Instead I'll gve you two links that will help you get the answer (And I assure you the answers are there) - all you have to do is find them here and here Cheers & Good Luck, Ryan Jones

I wonder why? I suppose its because you don't really need something that concentrated for normal applications? I bet you could make your own in the way you described though it would be quite exothermic and very dangerous! I think I'll stay with my 97% conc. Sulphuric Acid Cheers, Ryan Jones

If you call spraying people with liquid iron a deterant, I call it pure sue time. I'm not shure you could modify it in that way as it melts just about everything you put in it... You'r better off staying with the flash-bang grenades Cheers, Ryan Jones

This came up in the Cassini-Huygens proble launch to Titan: And thats about the hard as ice can possible get. Cheers, Ryan Jones

Sounds like fun! Maybe Ill try this tomorow! Cheers, Ryan Jones

LOL, I'd say - the award could say "Nature does not support stupidity - you are the weakest genetic link, Goodbye!" Cheers, Ryan Jones

Yup... perfect for a nice warm thermite reaction! Cheers, Ryan Jones

I'm not really shure. I think that it may be correct (Not 100% shure on this) because water splits up into [ce]OH^-[/ce] and [ce]H^+[/ce], this would suggest that Iron(II) Hyrdoxide ([ce]FeOH_2[/ce]) should be formed. Like I said I'm not at all shure about that though Cheers, Ryan Jones

Sounds pretty un-nice, I'm not going to eat any I'll tell you that Cheers, Ryan Jones

Well, I'll probably not be able to help much bere because i'm not shure what is formed when they react If, however, you know what the products of the reaction are then you can work out the total bond energy to start with and take the end bond energy from that, if you get a negative value then its exothermic, otherwise its endothermic Good luck, Ryan Jones

Yea I'd agree with that. Not that I want to examine it... water an that kind of heat seem like a bad miz like a bath with a person in it an electricity... LOL Cheers, Ryan Jones

Hi there Are Organic Peroxides very unstable? If they are then can anyone explain why? I've read more then a few threads on a few forums where these things are described as potentially explosive but I'm wondering if thet applies to them all and if not can you name one? Can anyone explain why these things are so unstable and also do these things have any practical applications or are they just too dangerous? Cheers, Ryan Jones

Thermite is a dangerous thing to play with if you don't know what your doing as all our chemistry experts will probably agree. If you get impurities in there too I suppose thet will cause a lot of problems too... especially because you can't stop the stuff... On Brainiac the molten Iron caused the ice to explode and that gives you some idea of the energies involved! Cheers, Ryan Jones

Vacuum makes little difference because this stuff makes its own Oxygen... Cold may make a difference but it prduces a hell of a lot of heat. Presuming you had enough of it it would probably still continue! And YT2095 where did you get hold of some thermite grenades? Cheers, Ryan Jones