Don't Mix These Chemicals! What Happens When You Mix Brake Fluid and Chlorine? TKOR Shows You!

Woaaaaaaahh, whooo Wow Hey whats up guys! it is good to see you again in today's video. We're getting crazy with chemical experiments, now for this video I was scrolling through the comments and I found this request from Spoon Kapeezi Who says if you mix brake fluid and chlorine the mixture will self ignite. This is an experiment You may be familiar with by now, but I think the real request is to push the experiment to the boundaries and explain What's actually taking place, now to get the chemicals we need for our experiment today I made two quick pit stops the first one was to a pool supply store to pick some of this fast dissolving shock treatment for swimming pools and the second stop was to the auto parts store to pick up some dot 3 brake fluid I'm Reading the warning label and funny enough It doesn't say anywhere on here that you can't mix with pool chlorine, does that mean we can? Well Let me show you what happens if you do, you might have noticed on the bag of pool shock chlorine it contains 73 percent calcium Hypochlorite so really high concentration of available chlorine the brake fluid is a mixture of ethylene Glycols And when you mix these two chemicals together a very interesting reaction occurs now if we snip the end off of our pool chlorine and pour out the contents you can see it's really just a Granulated white powder and if you're standing too close, it'll start to smell like a swimming pool And you might even feel it starting to sting your nostrils So here's the setup guys I just fill up this glass about half an inch full at the bottom with Pool shock chlorine And I've got our dot 3 brake fluid we're ready to pour in we're going to carefully add our brake fluid in equal proportions so that It comes just the top the chlorine then we're going to give it a little shake set it down on the top of this brick And start a timer and then get very very far away for about 2 minutes Now once these two chemicals mixed together. It doesn't really look like anything is happening. It's just sitting there. There's no smoke There's no steam It just sits there doing nothing and we're over a minute in twenty seconds now and nothing is really changed, but watch this Bangerang baby, did you see that? It'sat there for about one minute and 35 seconds, and it looked like it was doing absolutely nothing is was completely calm No smoke and then just out of nowhere boom the whole thing combusts a flame shoots up about four feet in the air and we get all this ash that bubbles up and Spews over the Edge that was an epic reaction, so let's do one more of those and then talk about what's happening Nothing like the itchy sensation of chlorine in the nostrils in the morning. It's what I do for you guys If you looked down at this, it looks like nothing is happening whatsoever. It's just sitting there. You don't see any smoke No, Heat if I feel the glass I don't even feel it warming up Ocassionally a little bubble, but I think that's just cuz of the oil sinking now, but we do want to get very far away We want to back up and just watch it patiently because the reaction is taking place watch this So we just passed a minute now since we added the brake fluid and absolutely nothing's happening. It's just sitting there it's just sitting there silently like a crocodile waiting for the kill but Something's going to happen just wait for it. It's a minute and 30 seconds Man that stuff shot right at the top I think that wasn't even bigger flaming that time that one shot up about five feet high and it was right at the 1 minute 35 second mark which is very consistent to the first test that we did So now that we verified that this reaction works. It works very consistently I reached out to my friend nurdrage for an explanation of what's taking place, and he gave me some really good insight I think we should talk about now on the warning label here It says that our brake fluid is a mixture of glycol ethers basically long Hydrocarbons very similar to oil the difference being that brake fluid has oxygen inserted every two carbons now Technically this fluid is flammable, but it's very very hard to ignite And that's why it's generally considered safe for use with your brakes Now the actual reaction taking place when the brake fluid makes contact with the pool chlorine is a free radical break down at the Polyethylene Glycol it basically breaks the Glycol down into lighter components like aldehydes now this takes time Which is why the reaction doesn't begin right away? But as the simpler aldehydes build up they start reacting with the oxygen in the pool chlorine to form water and carbon dioxide Is basically a simple combustion reaction the reaction is exothermic and produces a tremendous amount of heat to the point where it actually? Vaporizes the aldehydes and burst into flame. Yes It actually gets so hot that the brake fluid Vapors self ignite if you were to put this reaction inside of a sealed container the container would explode now Let's talk for just a second about the white vapors coming off of this reaction I've heard concerns from some people wondering that toxic chlorine gas now chlorine is very discernible It's very toxic it starts stinging your nose and your lungs Immediately with very low concentration and during all these experiments and reactions that I've tried the smell of chlorine is Negligible I actually get a stronger smell of chlorine when I'm just pouring the powder into the glass itself the white fumes we're seeing are actually broken down and vaporized brake fluid those are the flammable vapors that burst into fire as soon as the temperature - Todd now let's set up two more experiments just to see how this reacts in different scenarios one out in the open air and the other in the confined space of a soda bottle Okay, so that was a little bit surprising I thought out in the open air would actually take longer to react but actually went off in 54 seconds. That's really interesting Nice chemical residue now my friend Marcus brought up a good point Don't stir the stuff up with your fingers guys because any chemical residues can ignite and burn your skin, okay? So we've seen this reaction in a glass we've seen it in the open air our last experiment is in a plastic soda bottle I Just think I'm just going to give this one a little bit too much Much too much Just for the record that is way too much this should be fun fourth and final Here we go This one might happen a little fast Maybe not there's one minute oh wow, oh my goodness, holy heck Okay, so what was really interesting about that. It was still only about a minute and 30 seconds the same was our other reaction but the difference is the flame shot out like Rocket fuel the color of the flame itself was like a deep red or Magenta and it shot up Ridiculously high I mean it it almost looked like a rocket engine turned upside down not quite as much power of course but very very Satisfying and it was like shooting hot chlorine tablets into the air and they were raining down the back of my shirt Which is absolutely nuts. I'm actually quite surprised that took that long for the reaction to start because in a confined container I would have expected the heat to build a little bit more quickly But that was very consistent with the other reactions that we've experimented with today The thing is when it goes off in the bottle It's just a lot more violent imagine if that were capped off who have bottle bar on our hands What's really amazing to me is how deceiving this reaction is like it Just sits there nothing's happening at all and then out of nowhere Bam this huge fireball super violent reaction is you don't want to be standing anywhere near that's amazing You only get like a split-second with white vapor coming out of the bottle and then boom the whole thing ignites the bottle completely illuminates and then you see this fire stack just shooting out of the top and that right there is where it gets extremely violent the flame shoots out of Frame and starts spewing chemical into the air raining down ashes everywhere Man it goes from the stream of fire to like a blowtorch excellent seriously That's a lot of fire the other thing that you notice is the plastic bottle shrinks like the heat of the reaction shrinks the plastic and then catches in a fire where just burns away to nothing so Very intense experiment to say the least not an experiment need to try at home It's one of those things where the manufacturer says use the product only as intended for these kinds of reasons So kind of fun experiments here guys let's talk about what just happened We started off our experiment today with pool shot chlorine and dot 3 brake fluid those specific chemicals when mixed together Start an exothermic reaction that disassociates the polyethylene glycol into lighter and much more flammable Aldehyde when this exothermic reaction accelerates enough It'll eventually hit the point where the brake flew will vaporize and those flammable vapors will self ignite, and we tried three different scenarios we stuck this combination in a glass out in the open air and in a soda bottle and Surprisingly we found that the reaction in the open air went off quicker than the ones in the confined spaces Which is exactly opposite of what I would have expected So there we have a guides based on our experiments today We now have a deepened Understanding as to why mixing different chemicals together can lead to disastrous results and are often not recommended to be tried at home And of course a huge shout-out to spoon Capisi for leaving the suggestion in the first place and to all 580 of you who uploaded it go ahead and check your youtube inbox spoon or sending a 25 bucks? Hey, thanks for joining me for this experiment. I'll be looking for you the next one. Talk to you then interesting chemical residue you Can hear the comments? Global warming Hey guys, I want to jump back in for just a second to invite you to come follow me on Instagram I've got a very active page where I post daily pictures and stories of behind the scenes and every day's an adventure Just take five seconds right now to click the link in the description to come follow me on Instagram at the king of random I'll see you there

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 08 2017