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@pnadk2 ай бұрын
Only on Cody's Lab: Just a cosy bonfire in my back yard... It seems my shovel is on fire...
@roberson6442 ай бұрын
Only cody: Owns property way out in the desert away from people and structures. Lights off 50 pounds of thermite in back yard in the city anyway. LOL
@Akkbar212 ай бұрын
@@roberson644desert? High altitude maybe. Dude lives in Utah right?
@Bossnium2 ай бұрын
And it probably lost its temper. **Understands metal tempering never thought shovels were heat treated till now.
@thekraden042 ай бұрын
@Akkbar21 don't forget that desert refers to rainfall, not sand. Most of Utah is in the Great Basin Desert.
@thekraden042 ай бұрын
@@Akkbar21don't forget that desert refers to rainfall, not sand. Most of Utah is in the Great Basin Desert.
@nazamroth84272 ай бұрын
Imagine walking along the street and you just see a guy giggling around a pool of molten, violently exothermic "lava", occasionally stirring it with a flaming shovel.
@longhairdontcare1222 ай бұрын
Like you wouldn't slowly creep over until your existing is acknowledged.
@FainTMako2 ай бұрын
Eating little burnt mini marshmallows lmaooo
@agoogolofgeese2 ай бұрын
I’d love to be his neighbor. Never a dull moment, I’m sure lol
@lasaylem26222 ай бұрын
I'd figure he's probably a witch
@adrian5b2 ай бұрын
they're lucky he's not wearing the copper chain mail armor
@integza2 ай бұрын
Seeing you crush those cans was the most satisfying thing I've seen all week
@Kaljumees2 ай бұрын
YO ITS INTEGZA
@CameronBrown-ph9doАй бұрын
Let's face it you were hoping you'd think of some way to make a jet engine out of this weren't you
@linecraftman390715 сағат бұрын
@@CameronBrown-ph9dothermite jet engine duh
@lordpastrythief2 ай бұрын
I work for a company that makes CNC laser equipment for cutting and marking metals, and I always advise customers that if they don’t clean their slag wagons etc out between material changes, one of the hazards is essentially thermite build up between steel and aluminum laser dust/slag. Just last week a coworker was on site for a metal fire that wrecked a machine pretty good
@michaelmoorrees3585Ай бұрын
I use to operate a laser cutter. Aluminum would be cut using nitrogen as the purge gas, so the dust would still be mostly aluminum. Steel, on the other hand was cut with oxygen as the gas, which burned the steel, resulting in rust (iron oxide). All of that would be vacuumed up and collect in a large bin, that needed to be emptied, about once a week. That was always a messy chore, as the powder was very fine. Didn't realize that we were dumping about 50 lbs of thermite every time we did that. Good thing the trash bin never caught fire ! Good thing the trash bin was outside, at the far end of the parking lot.
@turninonthescrew73942 ай бұрын
Me at the halfway mark: "Yeah, that was a pretty cool video. Nice one, Cody." Cody: *(pulls out 50lb bucket of thermite)* Me: 😳
@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn2 ай бұрын
alexa play "It's gettin' hot in here"
@dhawthorne16342 ай бұрын
Basically, you have a big chunk of pig iron. This is the end product of the iron smelteries along the Susquehanna River. Coal, iron sands and the wood for charcoal was brought down by train and barge from around Centralia and Halifax, smelted and poured into buildings with floors covered in a thick layer of sand (that would turn green from the iron contamination, similar to that used in the stems of Alsatian wine glasses). The slabs would be broken up and sold to blacksmiths, iron-wrights and steel mills, often finding it's way up to Pittsburgh. Pig iron is rather useless on as is, it takes another melt or a lot of really hot, folding and forge welding to become something strong enough to be used as anything other than a paper weight. The reason you take this intermediate step is because transporting it in this form removes a lot of weight and volume. The Susquehana Valley was the logical place to set up these foundries because it was the shortest distance, near a lot of water from the sources of all the materials needed and you can let gravity do most of the transportation for you.
@pokekick41852 ай бұрын
Wouldn't this be wrought iron. Iron very low in carbon? Pig iron is high carbon iron from blast furnaces that hasn't been processed yet in a steel mill into steel. Wrought iron and pig iron would be forge welded and folded to create high carbon steel tools.
@dhawthorne16342 ай бұрын
@@pokekick4185 Wrought irons are forged. This is a cast iron. Either type can vary in composition based on source location and firing methods. Pig iron is characterized more by the large grains, voids caused by dissolved gasses and many contaminates such as scale, dross, sand and chunks of carbon. The common method of continuously dumping new fuel and iron alternatively into the top of a furnace stack does increase the carbon content, but the intent was to have a strong draft like a rocket stove instead of having to use a billows system. At least initially, the "near steel" levels of carbon was happenstance.
@TheNewSchmoo2 ай бұрын
"I've got pig iron, all pig iron"
@vinnycordeiro2 ай бұрын
Maybe Cody could lend all this iron to a smith to try and turn it into something like a dagger. It looks pretty nice, but I believe it'll rust over time if left as is.
@ke9tv2 ай бұрын
In earlier videos, Cody set up a bloomery and a finery forge for refining bog iron. I don't think he ever rigged a trip hammer, which you'd really need if your working stuff this big. Why the Susquehanna Valley, and later Pittsburgh? Because they had the coal! Iron ore was eventually arriving from as far away as Minnesota - but it takes a LOT more coke than ore to make a heat of iron!
@Entroper2 ай бұрын
The most controlled thermite reaction I've ever seen (and I've watched a lot of videos about thermite). I love that instead of just throwing melted slag everywhere, it was able to react more slowly and incorporate all of the aluminum cans and magnetite sand into the final products. When you pulled out that big lump of iron from the bottom was a huge "whoaaaaaaaaaaa" moment.
@runninggag24 күн бұрын
Its probably because it isnt mixed as much as usual, just like in Gunpowder. The more contact between the ingredients the faster it goes
@faroutman2313 күн бұрын
You should watch some videos on aluminothermic rail welding very controlled and precise
@atmega16a52 ай бұрын
19:02 The Exact Moment Cody's Lab Became Heisenberg
@henrique76122 ай бұрын
18:30 it is amazing that at this point you could just keep throwing more cans to keep a really warm fire.
@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn2 ай бұрын
or you could make it big enough for a demon to crawl through
@An_Attempt2 ай бұрын
Reason for the lip lifting off the sand: The thin aluminum rim cooled faster than the thicker Iron center material. As such the rim material contracted first and then solidified. After that, the thick center material solidified and contracted pulling the rim material up off the ground. This is a problem that you need to consider when 3D-printing large metal parts, so much so that the print novel needs to have a live physics simulation running to compensate for thermal contraction. At the end of the day, it comes down to thermal contraction and geometry.
@entityunknown22 ай бұрын
this can also be seen in plastic 3d printing. Especial when you print with high temperature filaments that's why expensive printers are a sealed box
@eldinmuller76982 ай бұрын
also aluminium expands and contracts more during the same temperature change than iron
@LinkinPark4Ever19962 ай бұрын
I think the ground dried out completely and shrunk
@ke9tv2 ай бұрын
Metal 3d pronts need geometry correction, too, because you're likely to do vacuum stress relief and then HIP the heck out of the part to relieve porosity. Those will warp the part even further.
@jamesmnguyen2 ай бұрын
Yeah, I assumed it was thermal contraction but I never even considered the different rates of the metals also contributing.
@duckbutt53352 ай бұрын
That pour at 2:00 is so satisfying. The sound gave the feeling of "Aah a nice warm cup of aluminium by the fire"
@eepylavendercat20 күн бұрын
the forbidden coffee 🤤
@b.w.222 ай бұрын
This is somehow the purest “Cody’s Lab” distillation and a wonderful throwback to some of the long-lost greats that boring old “YouToob” and the “Federal Government” had opinions on - that single-cylinder diesel clacking away, Dad’s ball mill, Cody measuring things, paper plates, “probably won’ts” and all. Loved this, man. Blew my mind to see that reaction consume the whole cans and boiling away like some open portal to the Earth’s core. Bravo.
@Idalb0e2 ай бұрын
2:12 Crazy to think this stuff used to be more expensive than gold, but now one can cast multi-pound ingots of it from casually discarded drink containers
@mduckernz2 ай бұрын
Yeah. Royalty would serve food on aluminium plates if they really wanted to show off. Now they’re like a really low budget option haha
@jamesmnguyen2 ай бұрын
I honestly think of this every time i see large quantities or common usage of AL. People back then would have their minds blown at the thought of whole airplanes built with it.
@humanlike66582 ай бұрын
The same will happen with gold if people learn how to extract it from the core of the earth 😂
@Idalb0e2 ай бұрын
@@humanlike6658 I feel like mining from space would be easier than mining from the core
@KainYusanagi2 ай бұрын
All because a way to cheaply and easily refine aluminum was discovered. Bauxite, the common ore for aluminum, is readily available, and aluminum makes up the largest portion of all metals and third most of ALL elements in the crust (behind only oxygen and silicon), at 8.23%.
@smoothwalrus93542 ай бұрын
Cody originally got demonetised because he made gunpowder out of his own urine. Now that he has been monetised again, he's teaching us how to make thermite 😂 Never change, Cody. You're the best.
@arstulex2 ай бұрын
To be fair, thermite isn't the crazy substance hollywood makes it out to be. While some types of thermite CAN be explosive, it mostly just burns at an incredibly high temperature. It's good for welding/melting through stuff due to it being able to deliver massive amounts of heat to a concentrated area. It's not so good for making bombs though. The 'mystery powder' he's using is probably much more dangerous. I'm guessing it's something like red phosphor (mixed with something else of course), but I'm not a chemist of any sort.
@Abdega2 ай бұрын
I want to say he made thermite a long time ago from etch-a-sketches
@Surprise_Inspection2 ай бұрын
The peasantry SHOULD NOT have the means to effect meaningful change into society. They always want justice and a redistribution of wealth. Ridiculous.
@marcanthony99632 ай бұрын
Magnesium @@arstulex
@adamgoodfriend2 ай бұрын
@@arstulex you clearly never saw what cody did with the copper thermite and a pipe.
@3v0682 ай бұрын
gosh darn I absolutely love this channel. Been a long time fan and seeing you keep going and having fun just doing random stuff is a nice break from a lot of the content on here.
@itsKurashi2 ай бұрын
This vid seems like a fun one! Thanks for all of the content over the years, I have been watching your vids for soooooo long. Keep it up :)
@Vikingwerk2 ай бұрын
Classic CodysLab; questionably safe science experiments in the back yard!
@leifvejby80232 ай бұрын
Most likely no HOA in his area!
@nunyabisnass11412 ай бұрын
I love his child like laugh. The dude really will never grow up and I love it.
@acrazydurian2 ай бұрын
hes got a sunny on, thats already better than the time tested method of safety squints at at least the safety of one arms length.
@toolittletoolate2 ай бұрын
Dude made enoguh thermite to take out a fucking military complex
@tssteelx2 ай бұрын
Yeah... he makes explosions and fire seem like an osha rep.
@NewVegasMPx2 ай бұрын
Working in a fabrication shop, I love how easily accessible the materials are for thermite. Literally just laying on the floor.
@LoveShaysloco2 ай бұрын
Our safety guy said we don't have flammable metal during a safety meeting. I said yeah we do. We have rust we have aluminum. So we have thermite waiting to be mixed. He said no we don't. So my logic choice I made thermite and said really and lit it up in the parking lot. He was not happy I proved him wrong lol
@bl4cksp1d3r2 ай бұрын
@@LoveShaysloco i wouldn't trust my safety with this safety guy xD
@kaitlyn__L2 ай бұрын
@@LoveShaysloco “oh really?” (flick) love it
@hamishfox2 ай бұрын
@@LoveShaysloco Well I'm glad you did prove him wrong. I know from experience that ignorance about this kind of thing can and will lead to accidents. Not just thermite, but poisons, dust, gas... even not tying your boots up properly can lead to losing a foot if you pour the wrong thing down your leg. My dad knew a guy that lost a hand to a drill press because he couldn't be bothered to take his gloves off. It all seems unlikely until it happens.
@heroslippy66662 ай бұрын
@@LoveShaysloco haha
@ivnaes10942 ай бұрын
Love your enthusiasm for these projects! I'm starting an education to become a biology teacher and I have a book on chemistry laying around that I really need to read beforehand to refresh my memory of the subject because the last time I had it was in 2015.. Your channel has taught me so much over the years though and I really appreciate you and your channel! Can't wait to try out chemistry experiments with my kids and teach them about beekeeping and the lot. Hope you're having a lovely day!!
@Timalick412 ай бұрын
This video was a BANGER!!! Definitely got me nostalgic to the good old days of KZbin and CodysLab. Thank you!
@PeakOfHumor2 ай бұрын
Since no one is talking about the intro, I appreciate your effort on it.
@abbysapples25472 ай бұрын
I'm glad that I'm not the only one that feels this way. This video was very labor some even the intro as you already know. I appreciate everything he did here to put on a great show.
@kinghenry70582 ай бұрын
So true!!
@quistador72 ай бұрын
If only he spent like 20% more effort on the rest of the stuff he does. His attention to detail is AWFUL. If only he spent a tiny amount of time and money his channel would be HUGE. Just look at how clean Nile Red is. Meanwhile literally everything Cody does is gross and dirty. His scale was disgusting a dirty... he can't be bothered to take a wet rag and wipe it down before filming it for 250,000 people? He does everything one handed when a cell phone tripod is TEN FUCKIN DOLLARS. He doesn't bother editing his footage, so instead he switches from his back to his front camera and everyone gets a nice second pause where they think youtube is broken.... It's just fucking amatuer hour for him when it comes to actually making videos. He's obviously a smart guy and knows his science stuff.... but his ability to be a youtuber after ALL THESE YEARS OF DOING IT... just amazes me
@sinopulence2 ай бұрын
@quistador7 Nile is a different kind of youtuber. Cody's lab has always been raw and authentic, backyard science guy. Don't like it, move on and watch others. People have lives and difficulties that you're unaware of. Do better.
@brianwill59292 ай бұрын
@quistador7 I've always preferred Cody's Lab for that exact reason. It makes science feel more accessible. When I was in my teens, I never could have reasonably recreated any on Nile Red's stuff. I have with Cody's stuff though. Get outta here with your bullshit complaining. Cody works hard on his videos and they are enjoyed by many. You can't say the same for yourself.
@pop_ulation2 ай бұрын
i can't believe i've lived 40 whole years of my life without ever seeing someone crush an aluminum can with a tamper.
@DrGreerIsRight2 ай бұрын
I know right haha my thoughts exactly
@wiltse02 ай бұрын
I discovered this tool and used it exclusively as a child for crushing the recycling, I had no other worldly use for it and if you would have asked me it's purpose as a child I would have stated can crusher
@Henners2 ай бұрын
As a kid my dad handed me and my siblings either a tamper or a huge sledgehammer to hold in the same manner to crush all our cans. As far as I knew as a kid; we had a can crusher tool and that’s what it was for lol
@livingart25762 ай бұрын
I’ve lived 42 years of Americans pronouncing aluminium wrong! 😀
@zysis2 ай бұрын
This Aussie has NO CLUE what that thing was for. Figured it was purpose-built for crushing cans. I was like... that's kind of cool, but pros stand on the can with one foot then tap the side with the other and it crushes lol.
@user-pf3cu4lo7u2 ай бұрын
I've been watching you for the better part of a decade and I love that you are still doing stuff like this.
@williampezzner42292 ай бұрын
Hi Cody! Great show. Thank you for making and sharing what you know. Semper Fidelis.
@Nighthawkinlight2 ай бұрын
Pretty excellent result! I like the idea of only using a small amount of highly processed material. I wonder if you could get away with only a couple lbs of thermite to get a big flowerpot of crushed cans going. Also you should make another iron ingot like that and cut it down the middle. Give it a polish and boom: art.
@Tony-op6xf2 ай бұрын
Cody and his IRL Minecraft episodes.. lol
@brendo73632 ай бұрын
It wouldn't show up the rainbow effect if you did that.
@orthoplex642 ай бұрын
@@brendo7363 the colors are throughout the volume; otherwise they wouldn't be on the surfaces revealed where he happened to split it apart
@brendo73632 ай бұрын
@@orthoplex64 do you think the iron has been turned purple? It's just a thin film on the outside of the iron crystals, you polish it, or even rub it hard and it comes off.
@orthoplex642 ай бұрын
@@brendo7363 It could be something like a foam of oxide. Seems more likely to me than the revealed surfaces _instantly_ oxidizing to the exact thickness required for that purple when exposed to air.
@Ultracity60602 ай бұрын
"If you wish to make thermite from scratch, you must first bake a pizza."
@lesliefranklin18702 ай бұрын
The pizza is actually a yummy byproduct of the reaction.
@RogueShadowTCN2 ай бұрын
Efficiency. Let nothing go to waste.
@agenthambo2 ай бұрын
"First rule of Project Mayhem is you don't talk about Project Mayhem!" - Unknown
@mzaite2 ай бұрын
That's just good advice any time.
@randygoolsby48932 ай бұрын
Carl Sagan 🙂
@tmanknoll97022 ай бұрын
I am so excited this worked. I started collecting soda cans 6 years ago to test this and see it could be done and had to move before i had gotten the iron oxide made. Love the videos!
@Gandhi_Physique2 ай бұрын
I just love that you don't use super high end lab equipment for a lot of things you do (maybe all, idk). These random things are so cool. I bet you've learned so much from doing all this random stuff.
@bedjoints2 ай бұрын
i love how unique cody's style has gotten over the years. nothing else like it
@spookisghostly46192 ай бұрын
He does what makes him happy and honestly that makes the content better
@cwtrain2 ай бұрын
There is plenty exactly like it. You're just not watching it.
@thecrowcook2 ай бұрын
It's like he never stopped being a beginner youtuber, he never changed to fancy setups or high end editing and production. Just a dude doing things he likes
@nachofwgКүн бұрын
@@thecrowcookI was thinking of how his style has remained reminiscent of earlier yt. It’s beautiful. Always fun little things, or surprisingly complex things. He definitely has fun doing what he does. :)
@asdfasdfadfasdf29792 ай бұрын
"Ooh, that's hot." -man digging lava with a shovel
@demon390632 ай бұрын
really appreciate the explanation of the different resultant materials, thanks Cody!
@ItsQualitycontent2 ай бұрын
Been watching you for about a decade now. Something about ur videos are so entertaining with a mix of American country ingunity and science. Ur a mad lad in the best way possible.
@vandorb122 ай бұрын
It's really cool seeing the iron prills in the slag. Reminds me of the forge experiments that Primitive Technology is currently experimenting with, especially iron bacteria sources.
@ke9tv2 ай бұрын
Cody's done bog-iron, too, in a collab with Joseph and Joseph from Good&Basic.
@VedranBucko2 ай бұрын
No way! I thought the exact same thing!
@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn2 ай бұрын
I just wish more survival games especially post apocalyptic survival games would include these kinds of things, like there are plenty of other way to process metals than just tossing them in a furnace that magically burns hot enough from firewood. yeah you need to simplify some things because it's a game but still.
@mikeblair25942 ай бұрын
I'm a blacksmith and I've been watching you since you started this channel. In smithing we use slow cooling out of the wind and weather to create a smaller grain structure. This is called normalizing. If you make a work-piece too hot you create large grain structures and brittle steel. So that's when you normalize it. You heat it to the critical point ( so hot that its non-magnetic). Then you heat it a bit more. Then you normalize it. You do this several more times until you're heating it to magnetic. The more you do this the smaller the grain structure size will be. I theorize that it was the overnight temperature and snowfall that cooled the iron quickly. Cast iron will always have a larger grain structure than steel, but I think that the fast cooling and possibly other minerals created conditions for the much larger grains/crystals. I would give somebody else's left eye to do a smelt to make wrought iron with you. I might just give my own left eye to run a smelt, but sadly I already lost my left eye when I was 21, so someone else's it is. Any takers in the comments? Thanx for the video. They're never boring.
@dimitar4y2 ай бұрын
We're in the cyber age, a camera's basically an eye, so throw one of those in mount doom to complete the sacrifice :p
@superfluousscience29602 ай бұрын
@@dimitar4y I thought at first you were gonna tell him to replace his lost eye with a camera, cyberpunk style 😆
@feliciapate79262 ай бұрын
Wasn’t it Odin who sacrificed an eye for knowledge? Weird association, I know. You just reminded me of that story. Anyways, thanks for the interesting insight. I’m not a metalworker, but I watch some on KZbin and I’ve long suspected something like what you said was the case.
@MattH-wg7ou2 ай бұрын
Youre basically a wizard to me. I am always amazed at metalworkers and how you can control all those variables to get all the output variables that you desire. It makes no sense to me. But I am a pocket knife enthusiast so Ive tried to learn a little about different steel types here and there, but it gets over my head very quickly!
@dimitar4y2 ай бұрын
@@MattH-wg7ou grab a piece of metal, heat it up, hammer it; If you survive to tell the tale and do this about 20 times, your muscles will whisper secrets to you..
@aalevie2 ай бұрын
Cody, it’s good to see you so happy man. Thanks for the fun video.
@benrodir2Ай бұрын
glad one of your videos blew up, you deserve it bro. love from all the long time subs
@darylcheshire16182 ай бұрын
the railways use thermite reactions to weld rail, it is done in a funnel or conical vessel which conducts the iron to the rail joint. Presumbably the iron is pure enough to join rails, over the last hundred years the mixture probably contains fluxes and other substances as well.
@The_Keeper2 ай бұрын
Yup. I've seen it in real life. Just fill the cone, set it off, and wait. Then grind it. Job done. Pretty cool and efficient way to repair tracks.
@JAMESWUERTELE2 ай бұрын
I used to do this in molds for ground grids in substations also
@christopherleubner66332 ай бұрын
@JAMESWUERTELE ah Cadwelds, the best and most fun way to join copper wire to ground rods ❤
@darylcheshire16182 ай бұрын
The electric welder looks good, about the size of a locomotive, has this clamp arrangement which can pull two rails together, it applies 7 volts to the rail and 20K Amperes.
@warrenharrison94902 ай бұрын
Would that be the cause of the slag piles I've found near railway tracks?
@Ms.Pronounced_Name2 ай бұрын
18:40 I was 100% expecting you to toss a few additional prepared cans in, like adding logs to a fire
@mrbigheart2 ай бұрын
this is soooo cool! awesome video and energy! :D keep it up!
@daneh62402 ай бұрын
I rarely watch a video start to finish, Great work Cody!
@FranciscoSilva-km1dg2 ай бұрын
He made a pool of molten metal in his backyard with sand and cans Take a moment to apreciate how cool is that
@TheTubejunky2 ай бұрын
And a ball mill and a furnace and a lathe and a budget for time and other materials.
@onradioactivewaves2 ай бұрын
@@TheTubejunkydon't forget about the mystery powder.
@TheTubejunky2 ай бұрын
@@onradioactivewaves Yes Red phosphorus I do believe.
@onradioactivewaves2 ай бұрын
@@TheTubejunky sounds like something he'd rather avoid naming.
@nousernamejoshua15562 ай бұрын
@@TheTubejunkyI thought that was the pizza? Anyway.. to soda cans.
@theendtimes3692 ай бұрын
I wonder if its posible to polish the iron with those amazing colors and what the result would look like. Interesting experiment and your enthusiasm is outstanding.
@johnnywick111019 күн бұрын
Aaah ive missed your channel. So great to watch 12am before sleep. Calm , relaxing, cool, interesting and im learning something too
@christopherj33672 ай бұрын
when it was glowing in the hole, it looked like a meteorite had landed. I would have thought the aluminium would have been silvery coloured like the iron. Thanks for sharing Cody.
@SpaghettiEnterprises2 ай бұрын
The metallic aluminum in the cans becomes aluminum oxide during the reaction, which is why it is no longer shiny afterwards.
@viola_case2 ай бұрын
bro just goes outside and gets the iron himself
@kylehawk90552 ай бұрын
He can also just go live like mars
@noob190872 ай бұрын
That's what's so cool about geology. People think stuff like gemstones and metals are rare. But if you just go look for them you're bound to find it. For example you can find garnet, quartz and topaz almost anywhere on the planet.
@petevenuti73552 ай бұрын
A magnet helps, beats separating all the sand grains by hand.
@LinkinPark4Ever19962 ай бұрын
Minecraft IRL
@edschaller37272 ай бұрын
@@LinkinPark4Ever1996 without the need for punching wood
@ambi2542 ай бұрын
This was a spark of joy for me, thanks for brightening up my day :)
@Manmaker1102 ай бұрын
I love how you are just having fun with yourself and appreciating little funny things like eating a marshmallow from a kinda cooled off molten aluminum hole lol
@MonkeyWithAWrench2 ай бұрын
HA! Thats clever as heck! I never considered that you could just start a large reaction that's big enough to just consume the raw cans! and considering all you needed to do to get the materials was save cans and use a magnet in the dirt, that makes a super cheap way of getting a LARGE thermite reaction! Nice job, Cody!
@blakemeding79172 ай бұрын
That's what I was thinking! A cheap, easy way of accessing a supply of Thermite, and iron. I was also thinking you could run the aluminum oxide (Sapphire) slag through the ball mill and make sand blasting media. Cody is so damn innovative.
@dave70382 ай бұрын
This works with magnesium too! If you ever find yourself with a spare old magnesium Volkswagen engine block you can build a nice big campfire and put the block in, and in a little while you'll have a nice magnesium fire going!
@ElDJReturn2 ай бұрын
Cody is the literal definition of "Science Is Cool".
@erinmac47502 ай бұрын
Truth! 🔥🪨✊
@canadiangemstones76362 ай бұрын
Yes! Well put.
@jonarment12292 ай бұрын
That smile on your face 😆 Great idea for a video!! I really enjoyed watching you do that...
@demon390632 ай бұрын
this whole video was awesome love the pit experiment! love the "welp, let's dig it up!"
@jerry37902 ай бұрын
It’s amazing how those huge chunks illustrate just how light aluminium is compared to other metals. No way could you hold a chunk of steel that size in one hand with such ease
@matthewfurlani86472 ай бұрын
structural steel is 41lbs per sqft per inch. a food can which is probably 5 inches by 2.5. so maybe it's 10-15lbs?
@niekpauwels95692 ай бұрын
Also it's aluminium oxide and he showed how many bubbles were inside. There's examples of rocks floating in water because of trapped bubbles, so this would be similar.
@S.ASmith2 ай бұрын
it's quite doable to hold 50kg or 110lb in one hand. Cody is relatively strong, having grown up on a farm.
@crackedemerald49302 ай бұрын
@@S.ASmithbro that's most of my weight, don't tell me a man can hold my own stupid ass one handed 😭😭😭
@Morganational2 ай бұрын
... speak for yourself..
@lonnywilcox4452 ай бұрын
If you insulate the hole with dry wood ash it will insulate far better than just the sand. Also throwing wood ash on top once the reaction is going will allow the heat to increase and allow more of the iron to precipitate from the slag. The cold air exposure is causing the mixture to cool and become sticky which is why some of the iron remains in the slag. Dry wood ash is an insane insulator, I have put cast iron pieces into a wood fire and let the fire burn out, come back a day later and pulled the iron from the bed and it is still red hot. It has taken up to a week for it to cool down to handle when it is left in the ash pile.
@mzaite2 ай бұрын
Next video, Cody makes Tamahagane Steel. Then, Cody forged a sword!
@carpediemarts7052 ай бұрын
Or perlite
@-danR2 ай бұрын
"Dry wood ash is an insane insulator" SpaceX' Starship division: "Interesting..."
@Metal_Master_YT2 ай бұрын
its actually capable of melting and dissolving wood ash...
@jamesg13672 ай бұрын
I think @Metal_Master_YT is correct that the ash would melt at the super high temp of the thermite reaction. So would practically anything else. But the ash might help anyway, as would a generous cover-up of sand immediately following the reaction.
@Slavicplayer2512 ай бұрын
good ol’ cody never disappoints good on ya mate love from aus
@Lampe20202 ай бұрын
I think it lifted on the edges because it lost its heat mostly out the top, so the surface was cooling and thus contracting before the lower parts, causing it to warp upwards.
Anyone else enjoy that crystal lattice defect sliding across in the intro?
@oldschoolcfi38332 ай бұрын
The calmest thermite reactions I've ever seen. Impressive reaction!!
@jonauli95182 ай бұрын
Don´t know why this came onto my feed, but fascinating stuff! I ended up watching the whole video, subscribed and liked !
@parkerbenz2 ай бұрын
When I was younger I made my own furnace out of a bucket lined with cement, and a hair dryer blowing air into charcoal briquettes with a steel fire extinguisher as the crucible. I was melting aluminum cans down, and about halfway through, the steel crucible started to melt. I was left with interesting mixture of steel, aluminum, and charcoal. It was fascinating, porous charcoal mixed with little round balls of magnetic steel, and smaller round balls of aluminum. To this day I cant fully understand why it turned out the way it did, but seeing videos like this are always interesting. Thanks Cody.
@xhappybunnyx2 ай бұрын
vented fires like that are no joke!
@AdmiralSenn2 ай бұрын
Glad you left out the secret igniting sauce details - hopefully that keeps the video up!
@jerry37902 ай бұрын
I think it’s some sort of perchlorate-based mix
@theobscurity93922 ай бұрын
@jerry3790 I was guessing it's just a powdered magnesium mix. I always use powdered mag to light off my thermite. But I wouldn't be surprised if Cody made something cooler and more on par for his style haha!
@LukSter189982 ай бұрын
@@theobscurity9392glowies on ma block
@chemistryofquestionablequa62522 ай бұрын
Aluminum and sulfur, KMnO4 and glycerine, magnesium, lots of things work, Cody used to use aluminum and sulfur, probably still does.
@solaries32 ай бұрын
Wouldn't want the gov't to show up at his door. Again.
@LukeStallings862 ай бұрын
This brings back some really good KZbin feelings. Back when KZbin was good. Thanks Cody.
@mouradbelkas5982 ай бұрын
Thank you Cody, pretty amazing. I learned something awesome
@larsbecker20032 ай бұрын
Please never stop uploading cody. I really enjoy your videos. When i started watching you i was 10, now i get 21 and still enjoy your videos and you as a person. I am studying electrical engineering right now and you contributed to my development in interest in science. Just that you know that from an unimportent viewer from germany.
@noob190872 ай бұрын
15:01 Fun fact: Did you know that cameras are actually capable of capturing light in the infrared range? That pink glow around the fire is IR radiation. You can tell that the fire here is really hot because of how much pink there is (IR radiation is also known as heat radiation.)
@JamesChurchill32 ай бұрын
You can tell that fire is hot because of the way it is. That's pretty neat!
@noob190872 ай бұрын
@@JamesChurchill3 You misunderstand. IR is invisible to the eyes, you can't see it. But it's close to the visible part of the spectrum, so a camera that can see a bit into IR just lumps it in as pink light instead. If you were there the fire wouldn't look pink at all, but instead you could feel the IR on your skin.
@themanhimself32 ай бұрын
You're telling me that fire is hot? No way!!
@JuniorJunison2 ай бұрын
Normal color cameras can only see near IR. The wavelength of IR light that is associated with heat radiation is much longer. Thus the camera is not seeing heat, it is only seeing IR light. The thing to remember is that molten metal itself emits light in various wavelengths, not just the usual heat, and so the metal itself is emitting near IR light in addition to the IR energy that is associated with heat. Hopefully that makes sense.
@JamesChurchill32 ай бұрын
@@noob19087 How neat is that?
@David-sw3on2 ай бұрын
Now that was an entertaining video! Thanks very much I definitely learned a few things👍😉🇨🇦
@QueenTea_2 ай бұрын
Your content never dissapoints. Favorite youtube channel 7 years strong!!
@DasIllu2 ай бұрын
That mystery igniter looks a lot like powdered copper and sulfur to me. Classic demonstration in chemistry classes.
@TechNextLetsGo2 ай бұрын
When I made the ignition powder we just added like 30% Sulphur to the termite mixture.
@techtinkerin2 ай бұрын
Crushed up safety matches
@matthewcox79852 ай бұрын
Quite a few other examples used a firework sparkler as an igniter (and fuse).
@user-yb5cn3np5q2 ай бұрын
That definitely looked like powderized safety matches.
@tissuepaper99622 ай бұрын
It's too bad that the feds keep crawling up Cody's ass about his energetic experiments, otherwise I'm sure he would have been quite happy to explain exactly what the "mystery powder" was.
@bryanroberts2 ай бұрын
"Fire tower 1 to Fire tower 2" .... "Ummm, it looks like there is weird colored smoke and flames coming from Cody's again!"...."yah it's ok he's just making a video!"
@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn2 ай бұрын
I wonder if they even check in on him if they hear any explosions or if it is just another day near codys lab xD
@tterryshenanigans18202 ай бұрын
Gondor?
@Genderspren2 ай бұрын
I love that this implies he's on a first name basis with the fire department
@FatAndy80sGen2 ай бұрын
Very Satisfying Video 😂 Came across this by accident but loved every minute of it haha.. Liked and subbed 👍😁👍
@jpjpJPJPG2 ай бұрын
Thanks Cody! I'd bet the gap along the sides is from uneven cooling. It likely cooled more quickly and contracted on top while still pliable on the underside allowing it to pull in and leave the gap behind. I know that's a consideration in molded and casted parts because of the warpage that comes with uneven cooling
@KarX2112 ай бұрын
Dude so casually made a less angry Elephant's Foot in his yard
@acrazydurian2 ай бұрын
AND he poked it with a stick with the flat pointy end! AND the flat pointy end caught on fire within seconds! im giggling like a little girl right now
@heyarno2 ай бұрын
I like how neatly the iron and slag separated in the last batch.
@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn2 ай бұрын
Kinda wish some post apocalyptic survival games would integrate smelting in these sort of backyard chemist ways but unfortunately most of them lack creativity
@JustHear4DaPopkorn2 ай бұрын
@@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn I'D PAY GOOD MONEY 2 SEE DAT
@michaelschecker27162 ай бұрын
seeing what you do makes me to shapeshift into the core of reaction..... learned a lot 😀
@Merojewelleryworkshop2 ай бұрын
This was amazing to see , good job 👏
@christopherleubner66332 ай бұрын
The turnings and chips work fine as is for large thermite fires. Ball milling works great for making pyro grade powders though. One fun thing to do is to make a battery with the aluminum, use the turnings for the negative side and some baking soda plus lye for the electrolyte, then a mix of graphite and rust for the positive side. Makes about 1.7V per serving.😂
@hanbill2 ай бұрын
4:08 don't wanna inhale that pixie dust
@dimitar4y2 ай бұрын
heavy(?) metal poisoning at its finest
@Gigely_Strudels2 ай бұрын
I am happy you are still getting views, I went through my subscriptions and found you again (too many subs ugh and home page doesn't show you)
@dingdong1245781234562 ай бұрын
love your smile man it radiates joy
@rutherford25802 ай бұрын
Oh those colors in the iron are amazing. They are aligned like a temperature scale due to the temperature gradient. Never would I have thought about to make Thermite like this.
@victorcercasin2 ай бұрын
Cody is my most favorite person on KZbin. This video made me happy in a way other youtubers just can't anymore
@lifes2short4aname2 ай бұрын
Are you a pyromaniac ? Xd
@victorcercasin2 ай бұрын
@@lifes2short4aname apparently...
@Biggestmac272 ай бұрын
Cody is the reason I get to be the smart guy in my friend group, I love you codester 💪
@CyclingSteveАй бұрын
Love it when you do projects like this.
@arrrghr2 ай бұрын
"Ignition mixture." "Mystery powder." AKA, "Please don't send the bomb squad to my house kthx."
@techtinkerin2 ай бұрын
Aka crushed safety matches
@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn2 ай бұрын
i mean a sparkler would work just as well
@killkarl81982 ай бұрын
So great to see you back online. The last video was great, but I've been missing the chemistry vids.
@kylehawk90552 ай бұрын
His video on cleaning the highway made me sad thinking of when I was told to throw away the extremely heavy dust from the edges of an RV repair shop. Had last been sealed a little over 10 years prior.
@aufoslab2 ай бұрын
yes but dont killkarl
@Flederratte2 ай бұрын
I used to melt aluminium in a furnace which had a bottom made from plaster of paris and used charcoal and blown in air as fuel. At one point my crucible burned through and the hot alumium came in contact with the plaster of paris (CaSO4). I figured it would collect at the bottom and added more aluminium cans on top and left the air blower running. Suddenly the plaster reacted with the aluminium in a reaction similar to this. It was very bright and quite fun to watch although also a bit scary. The whole alumium was used up and also a big portion of the plaster was missing afterwards.
@erickruiz99602 ай бұрын
Cody is the adult that decided to do the things every engineer wanted to do as kids.
@Matt-gr9sw2 ай бұрын
This was captivating! I wish I knew about thermite when I was a teenager living out in the country. That the slug was still warm to the touch a half day later is just crazy. Fun watch all the way through.
@derchromebacher43662 ай бұрын
Get you a man that takes out the good shovel to stir the thermite
@archibaldthearcher2 ай бұрын
They used to make lead shot by pouring molten lead through sieve and letting it fall from height, the bigger the diameter the longer distance was needed so high towers were constructed for that very purpose (Look into 'shot towers' to get more details). Pretty sure you used to have access to vertical mining shaft (recall it from mushroom growing series) maybe it would be worth trying playing with this method to get aluminium shot in reasonable size that can be then thrown into ball mill for finer pulverizing. There were alternative methods developed since so there's space for some tweaking. Seems like potentially much easier and faster method than melting everything into big chunk and then spinning it all on lathe just to get chips
@archibaldthearcher2 ай бұрын
On separate note, there has been some progress with iron nitride as potential alternative to neodymium magnets. Quite promising technology considering how dependent we currently are on rare earth metals. Biggest challenge was producing nitride in bulk. There are few processes, but one seems fairly straight forward and simple. Iron oxide can be thrown into ball mill with ammonium nitrate, apparently over days of spinning nitrogen will diffuse into iron particles. Making magnets seems like a potentially interesting video series, especially exploring potential of making them using iron nitride. It's a good exercise in chemistry and metallurgy with fairly accessible materials, they sure as hell are accessible to Cody and he worked with them already on previous projects Just an idea
@erinmac47502 ай бұрын
@@archibaldthearcher That sounds like an amazing Cody project! I've always been fascinated by magnets. Making one yourself this way seems like alchemy. I hope he does this! 🍀✌️😎
@dave70382 ай бұрын
For aluminum you can pour directly into water to get individual lumps. If you pour from a foot or two you get round bits about 0.5 to 1 inch in diameter, often as hollow beads (occasionally a sealed bead with water inside). I'd suppose that if you pour from high enough, maybe with a splash plate, you could get cooled bits small enough to pulverize effectively in the ball mill. Probably would take longer to mill than the chips, but skips the lathe, so less hands-on time.
@internetbodhi10092 ай бұрын
@@archibaldthearcher While I like the enthusiasm, there are so many things wrong with that idea from a legal and safety standpoint.... Legally ammonium nitrate is rather heavily regulated. Of course, Cody may have access as a farm owner(?). Still, hurdle #1. However, it is regulated because it can be explosive. (Recently in Beirut, for example) Now, ordinarily, its safe. It is a fertilizer after all, but chucking a bunch of ammonium nitrate in a truck's steel rim ball mill, with a bunch of steel balls, and adding iron powder, all of which are famous for sparking, is such a bad idea I hope this explanation is enough.
@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn2 ай бұрын
yeah just gimme a sec as I harvest my nitrides from my haber bosch machine@@archibaldthearcher
@Legit25702 ай бұрын
God i love Cody's Lab. One of the best YT channels out there and goes to show you dont need any fancy set ups or ideas. Just a man with a camera and science (plus a fantastic personality)
@MitchFlint2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Cody. That was really cool-I mean hot! I always enjoy the real-world aspect of your videos and the way you delve into the purely scientific realm.
@WhichDoctor12 ай бұрын
this would make such a good scene for a sci-fi book/film. Some people crash on a barren planet where there's no organic resources and its going to get lethally cold when night comes, but they have no source of heat. So they process a little bit of the aluminium from their crashed spaceship into dust and gather up a bunch of magnetite sand then make a small amount of thermite to get a reaction going and then spend the night huddled round a pit of molten iron throwing in chunks of their spaceship and handfuls of the sand to keep the reaction going until dawn
@StephanAhonen2 ай бұрын
Anthony Weir is kicking himself for not making this a subplot of The Martian... Martian soil gets its red color from iron oxide
@TobiasWeg2 ай бұрын
Are you an Author, very nice story idea, nicely described would love to read it.
@32Rats2 ай бұрын
Not to mention it can burn perfectly fine in low oxygen environments since its oxygen comes form the iron oxide
@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn2 ай бұрын
pretty sure the spaceship aluminium alloy wouldnt be pure enough for that. But scientific accuracy hasn't stopped any science fiction writer yet otherwise the martian wouldnt have beena success.
@LucasRipetta2 ай бұрын
Leave it to Cody to take a violent exothermic reaction and tame it into peaceful Bonfire mode. This are the content creators that makes KZbin still enjoyable. Great intro by the way
@zenaakers74692 ай бұрын
utterly fascinating. Thank you
@WholeLottaRandoms2 ай бұрын
No one has better ideas than Cody.
@shopwood992 ай бұрын
Might be interesting to repeat but after igniting cover it with an insulating layer to encourage the growth of large crystals.
@1123pawel2 ай бұрын
That could be really cool! Especially if you manage to Insulate on all sides, perhaps using sand and ceramic wool.
@albummutation22782 ай бұрын
you truly are one of my favorite content creators on this whole platform, please never stop making content (unless you need to for external reasons, of course; your mental health is more important than my entertainment lol)
@LilAbum7422 ай бұрын
😊 awesome thanks for the info I've always wanted to make thermite for dumping on someone elses car bonnet on
@Smallathe2 ай бұрын
Creative thinking and thermite... what can go wrong ;) wonderful video!