Ammonium Chlorate - Explosions&Fire

In the shortest Ex&F video in a long time, we take a look at the unstable oxidiser ammonium chlorate, as his buddy ammonium bromate.
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A year later and it's still funny

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[@skyethebi]

Bromate is one of the best named inorganic compounds of all time ngl

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Green phosphorus???

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

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@@martinusher1 Yea people don't realize that even things like ETN can be a pain to make. It took me a while to get my yields how I wanted them simply because of my KNO3's shittiness. TATP is piss easy to make but getting the peroxide without being flagged is the hard part. You could make usable peroxide from the 3% version but it's tedious. Even when you succeed you'll have accidental detonations that kill you or if you make something insensitive enough to not kill you, you'll probably have some testing to do with proper detonations before you can do much.

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[@ElementalMaker]

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[@davemwangi05]

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[@darianballard2074]

Very brave lol playing with ammonium chlorate. It can go off all on its own .

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2:15 _green_ phosphorus?... Never heard of it

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[@KangasniemiJerri]

Funny thing; Ammonium Chloride, which sounds like something between rat poison and an oxidizer, is actually Salmiak - the salty liquorice-ish salt that is really popular in Sweden and Finland.

[@theterribleanimator1793]

Thats were i get my ammonia for most experiments.

[@terawattyear]

Interesting compound, I never thought about trying to make it. I like how it burns with no residue. The compound is all gasses, like ammonium nitrate.

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who's here after seeing the explosion in beirut?

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[@Nefville]

Ammonium perchlorate is my favorite oxidizer because it doesn't melt so easily at high temperatures like ammonium nitrate does.

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[@edson7986]

It is also interesting to see the ammonium nitrite NH4NO2 ,it is probably not Oxidant due to the perfect OB (all oxygen goes to ammonium), but it should burn like Ammonium Chlorate when it is rapidly heated.

[@Quintinohthree]

Ammonium nitrite readily decomposes. It's just too unstable.

[@MushVPeets]

2:19 Don't you mean ammonium chlorate's bro/mate?

[@josephiroth89]

Fun fact about bromates: they contain two words meaning friend.

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Whats up bromate

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[@CatboyChemicalSociety]

If ammonium chlorate is unstable and breaks down in a few days I wonder if I can make ammonium perchlorate with contaminated sodium perchlorate and spread out under mild heating to 100 celsius or so for a few hours or so to allow any ammonium chlorate to break down.

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When Romeo and Juliet finally get together, it's an explosive ending where both of them are no longer with us...yeah no, you got the gist of it.

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Holy fuck I knew ammonium is inorganic. I've never studied chemistry.

[@piranha031091]

Pretty cool! Especially the white P. But wtf is green phosphorus?

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Thanks dude! A terrible reducing agent it seems

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Oh that end was kind of abrupt didn't see that coming

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I'd love to see a video about ammonium *per*chlorate ;)

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[@funkyskitchen]

When you were oxidizing the elemental sulfur with the bromate, what is released? Umm... can't do the stoichiometry in my head.

[@Max-cv7rx]

Watching this again in Sept 2020. RIP Beirut. Should’ve watched this video...

[@cezarcatalin1406]

ammonium perchlorate powder saturated with paraffin under compression (add it to molten paraffin and squeeze the liquid paraffin out of the powder) can actually sometimes* detonate if you put an azide detonation cap into it. *Usually, this mixture also contains up to 11% pentaerythritol tetranitrate powder to enhance it's reliability. It's called A3PN (Ammonium Perchlorate, Paraffin, Pentaerythritol tetraNitrate). It is used in mining (sometimes paraffin is replaced by some kind of oil) and also the chinese military uses some variation of A3PN with more PETN in the mixture. I guess something like maybe ~35% PETN + plasticisers = plastic explosives? idk, they don't tell anyone what they use exactly, lol ... maybe they don't even use PETN...

[@dalitas]

....was just looking at my bottle of Barium chlorate...

[@karolus28]

2:16 that caught me off guard

[@tmfan3888]

0:42 ammonium chloride

[@Shaheen_Hassan]

Is there anything as green phosphorus?

[@isafiilvg]

I've made ammonium nitrate and want to chlorate, I've mixed sodium chlorate + ammonium nitrate but no results, no signs of crystals forming and only a liquid where do you think i went wrong?

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Love it

[@Erden99]

the double emotional whammy of being told you don't belong with the girl you like and the way the best things in life are over quick was too much for me :( I'm degenerating into an orange reeking mess of bromine

[@notdpfp]

0:47 that hit way too close to home

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Love the ending lol 😂

[@Ulim151]

Pure chlorate + white P is probably one of the scariest things out there. Definetly stronger than Ammonium Chlorate + white P. Also what in tarnation is green P? Is it match heads?

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Uliemm151 There's that video floating around of the White P in carbon disulfide and it gets put onto K chlorate, it evaporates and then detonates. I assume you've seen that, it certainly is very impressive. That contact area is a large part of why it explodes, I thought the energy output from my small lump of WPjust roughly dumped on the chlorate was still really impressive. I'll have to try with the other chlorates.... Carefully. And nah it's just pure green phosphorus man

[@Ulim151]

I saw it live during lecture. They used excessive amounts too. Something like 8g of white P with a bed of 30g of chlorate.

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Uliemm151 now that's super cool. Dangerous as, but I love it

[@shannondove96]

Explosions&Fire2 can you drop a peice of phosphorus into liquid N2O4?

[@minime9990]

Sodium bromate sounds like the most Aussie way to say sodium.

[@dexterrius]

what about detonability of NH4ClO3? it should be sensitive and detonable in low quantities

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[@meplaying3967]

Is it possible to use potassium chlorate instead sodium chlorate?

[@shadowdawarcat5811]

That orange gel might be ammonium bromite

[@arf20]

Explode ammonium nitrate!

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Química pura loco.

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The amonium chlorate cant be made from KClO3. My life has lost its meaning. But still an awesome video man!

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WTF so short?? :D

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Your voice sounds clearer on this video, what is that mic you are using?

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2:40 I knew this dude reminded me of ramsey from game of thrones

[@tosh4461]

How do you get potassium nitrate? I can’t seem to find it anywhere now days I used to be able to buy it pure form the local shops

[@Kirillissimus]

Where I live KNO3 is still available in the shops for gardeners. Not as popular as grow accelerating ammonium nitrate though. But the stuff is very unpure and it requires processing by at least filtering and recrystallisation. Getting pure salts is much harder and can be quite expensive.

[@shannondove96]

I hear that KClO3/vasoline mixtures are difficult to detonate and when they do detonate they have a low vod,.... what about replacing 10% of the KClO3 with this ammonium chlorate? Would that increase brisance and vod?

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Sounds like a way to die. Not sure it would awfully help much

[@georgeh5075]

0:49 Georgia watching this back like wtf

[@pirobot668beta]

Wasn't Armstrongs mixture based on chlorates and 'dirty' sulfur? Dirty as in traces of sulfuric acid from unrefined sulfur flowers. Stuff was so sensitive that one had to mix it by diapering; using a sheet of paper with strings on the corners. Lift each corner in turn to gently mix the powders, from behind a blast-shield. Even with that, it was common for the stuff to go off 'just because' Fireworks were very different 100 years ago!

[@r.awilliams9815]

Nah, Armstrong's is red phosphorus and potassium chlorate. It's generally mixed wet, as it's somewhat safer to handle that way. I've never had the inclination to fool around with the stuff, because I kind of like my fingers where they are.

[@uctuyenle4649]

I think the equation is NH4XO3-->NO+1/2X2+2H2O X is a halogen aside from fluorine

[@uctuyenle4649]

The NO can also decompose into N2 and O2 since idk how hot the mixtures burn

[@zootycoon2king]

Using the NUT sauce as a reducing agent.

[@corentinteulet4141]

Where do you got the perchlorate of ammonium plz ??

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Holy shit he doesn't have a beard

[@metanumia]

@Explosions&Fire2 So, you're saying Ammonium Chlorate is *LESS* stable and *more* shock sensitive than Ammonium Perchlorate? Great videos, btw, very interesting and informative! :)

[@wypkewypkema6306]

If you really want fun mix a large amount of ammonium chlorate, when mixed with fuel it explodes even when slightly confined

[@fordracer1415]

What do you do to initiate it, impact, light it?

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Kitty on the chalkboard! 😃

[@tristan795]

What about ammonium iodate?

[@icebluscorpion]

What's about ammoniumpermaganate? How instabil is that?