To me, this is citizen science at its reckless best. Very dangerous, don’t try this at home unless you’re a pro, type of stuff, but still fascinating to watch.
The series, called “Red Hot Nickel Ball,” on the YouTube Channel Cars and Water, currently contains 74 videos of a red-hot ball of nickel being introduced to different liquid and solid substances to see how they’ll react. Popcorn, rib eye steak, whiskey, dry ice, sugar, Styrofoam, ballistics gel, chocolate Easter bunnies, and more are all subjected to the destructive energy of glowing nickel.
I don’t know about you, but I could watch chemical and material reactions all day long. It’s fun to try and guess what you expect the reaction to be, given the composition of the materials, and then to see what actually happens. The results are often surprising. And for me, and I assume others, strangely satisfying and educational.
Here are a few of the experiments, to give you a taste for the collection.
Ballistics Gel
Eggs
Sugar
Elmer’s Glue
If you were a fan of the David Letterman like throwing stuff off of a building, crushing things in a press, and Will It Float?, you’ll likely enjoy this odd YouTube series as much as I do.
You can access the entire “Red Hot Nickel Ball” Playlist here.
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So, firing a pellet pistol is “horrifically dangerous”? Hmmm…
Haha Right?
Yes that doesn’t make any sense.. The whole point of ballistics gel is to stop bullets.. It does have to do with it in the sense that it’s showing what the gel usually does vs what the ball did to it..
My bad. I didn’t even realize that it was a pellet gun. I deleted it.
ummm…. pellet guns in general are not ‘horrifically dangerous’… and shooting into ballistics gel isn’t dangerous either…. unless you’re an idiot and put your face on the other side of the gel to stop the pellet/bullet…..
Pretty stupid series if you ask me. It’s like a little kid that just discovered matches. “Let me see what else I can destroy!”
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