What happens when potassium burns?

[@doctorpopcorn6051]

These videos are fascinating. Seeing not only the equation, but the physical reality. Excellent stuff.

[@doyale2]

Good to see you uploading again! Quality content as always.

[@BackYardScience2000]

Very nice video! I did this same experiment as well and also noticed the burning metal climbs the walls of whatever it is burning in, even in very small amounts. If it is burned in a closed system with pure oxygen being fed into the system you can obtain pure potassium superoxide. Though a lid must be kept on it to keep it from reacting with atmospheric moisture. This is how I acquired my sample of the superoxide for my compound collection. Anyways, great video! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Keep up the great work.

[@abdelhakouinharoune7504]

Absolutely beautiful ! I love it The quality is awesome, keep up the great work :)

[@jesscorbin5981]

Any nitrides?

[@mikaljan]

great to see your new video!! keep up the awesome work!

[@jamesg1367]

Beautiful presentation! I wonder how much control one might gain over the products if the atmosphere were tailored to it. Absence of CO2, for instance.

[@RaExpIn]

Thanks! Changing the surrounding gases could surely be interesting. I often thought about burning lithium in pure nitrogen.

[@leezatyagi8837]

Brilliant awesome no words to say I ur presentation

[@JoakimfromAnka]

When reacting Al or Ca with KNO3 I often get some strange green/teal stuff left. Do you know what it could be?

[@RaExpIn]

Does it react with water to form ammonia? Then it could be the nitride of calcium or aluminium.

[@MrGrim-ot4ei]

Is the potassium aluminum can give me a great smoke ?

[@chandannayak4593]

thanks you

[@aarushishakya6135]

that was kinda nice and scary :)

[@synthesizer8026]

Very cool

[@jesscorbin5981]

So the oxides and peroxides formed in the video are black in color?

[@RaExpIn]

The molten oxides of potassium seem to be black. When they solidified they were yellow.

[@flixzdum]

lilac

[@hughsgarbagetrucks]

Banana metal

[@moses8159]

the flames should be lilac colored according to my textbook.

[@QUBIQUBED]

yeah they are we saw it in the reaction w/water

[@moses8159]

@@QUBIQUBED ohh right, my bad

[@bboyvn863]

I am from Vietnam, hope you will publish many chemical experiment videos: "))

[@Rhodanide]

Looks like magma. Totally nuts.

[@RaExpIn]

Yes, at some point it's kind of like looking into a volcano :D

[@hakan8997]

So this is what we get when eating bananas and see weed! I don't want to do the dishes!

[@QUBIQUBED]

School is so good at making this boring its impressive

[@eduardoGentile720]

Are you German? Just for curiosity

[@RaExpIn]

Yes :) There's even a second channel, where I upload all my videos in german. I'm trying hard to get rid of my accent, but it's not easy :D

[@cona1432]

interesting question. it at least sounds like he has a slight german accent.

[@doyale2]

He is, and he also has a german channel.

[@eduardoGentile720]

@@RaExpIn ah don't worry, for me (I'm italian) it's hard actually learn grammar because it is REALLY different, my comment was just a test of how good was i at recognizing accents, apparently I am ;)

[@trueknowledge2065]

Hey are you Italian , Tu sei Italian? Io sono Indian

[@TheWatcherxx99]

Don't ask how I ended up here

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[@rnyan_2]

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