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I have also tried this with a basttery charger but had it set up complatly wrong. I am going to try it again as soon as I get some sodium hydroxide.

It's easy to set off but you have to do it within 5-10 minutes of making it.

THanks to jdurg: It's pretty simple. You need to have fairly concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) with some concentrated ammonia solution mixed in. Do this very carefully to ensure there's no rapid decomposition of the H2O2. Put this mixture into a tall graduated cylinder. In a separate flask with a one-holed stopper, put some concentrated calcium hypochlorite solution and slowly add concentrated HCl to it. This will start generating chlorine gas. The stopper should have a glass tube coming out of it with the other end under the surface of the H2O2/NH3 mixture. Once you've got the HCl added, put the stopper on. The Cl2 generator should be setup at a higher level than the graduated cylinder as Cl2 is much denser than air so this will cause it to flow out the glass tube into the H2O2/NH3 cylinder. As the chlorine enters the graduated cylinder, it will cause the decomposition of the H2O2 and it will form exicted (singlet) oxygen which will glow red. Just make sure this is done in a well ventilated area as the Cl2 and NH3 are pretty nasty stuff.

Almost impossible to filter this oil. Maybe mineral oil or something but not motor oil.

Yes lithium batteries do discharge quickly.

Yeah plain diamonds are not the strongest substance in the universe.

WE have about 3 gallons of 30% (Car battery strength) sulphuric acid stored in 5 gallon plastic jugs. It doesn't appear to be normal plastic however (It's really heavy and white) and the acid is fine.

Yeah I have to do a research project on the Aluminum Gallium alloy for Colloquium (spell?).

About the detonating gas earlier in this post. I filled ip a liter bottle with it and rigged up a fuse system. It went off with a huge BOOM!! but left the bottle completly intact save the lid was blown off. It was just a cheap mountain dew bottle not a gatorade bottle. This makes me think that since it doesn't really realease any gas just water vapor it doesn't have that much power save the noise. Ohh well just wanted to get that out there. Oh and DON'T try this or you'll probably blow your hand or house up like JWalker!!!

I tried this too and chunked a red hot lump of magnesium into a stock tank. It just sank, maybe it wasn't hot enough or not burning well enough yet.

Dude just buy youself a battery charger or get a "wall wart" ac to dc convertor. It's much easier and you won't have to spend an outragous amount on 9 volt batteries. I did something like this with a battery charger and the water turned green.

I heard somewhere it was made of asbestos.

just a note, if you do try this use gasoline or something. Plain clean motor oil takes a really long time to filter as I am letting it filter overnight.

I just tried this at 12 volts ~60 amps and my clean oil turned black. I will filter it and see if the product is aluminum.

I heard somewhere what you can make aluminum powder easily by arching two pieces of aluminum under oil (like diesel). Will this work or will it only make aluminum oxide?