Experimenting with Liquid Metal!!!

I'm an island trying to make him [Music] got that gun and I'm selling my mind [Music] welcome to Demolition Ranch this is a solid block of aluminum and you guys probably saw it about five and a half years ago on Demolition Ranch this is the block that we shot uh in a 50 cal versus aluminum video and I shot a bunch of different rounds at it and unfortunately nothing made it through so today we're gonna try something else now this is the exact same block we've done nothing to it it's hard as you can see but I learned of a little chemical reaction where you actually put gallium which is another metal a periodic table of elements symbol is GA actually kind of scientist no big deal and if you put gallium onto aluminum it does some chemical reaction scientists see stuff and it actually breaks it down and makes it brittle so this thing beat me five and a half years ago and I'm coming back for vengeance I'm coming back for blood and I want to get a 50 cal to pass through this thing and I'm going to use science to help me get there this is a vial of gallium and right now it is solid but at 85 degrees this thing will melt so that's our smelting point is 85 degrees so it's like mercury in the sense that it's a liquid metal very easily liquid metal because it has a super low melting point um but it's not toxic like Mercury is so you can actually have it in your hand so actually so I can get out of here we may just need to melt it right now it is below 85 degrees in Texas right now so we'll get some warm water but you can see it's it is a hard metal just like any other metal but with a little heat you can make it turn into a liquid so this is a soldering gun and it I just turned it on so it's barely warm but getting really close you can see that easily just kind of melts that and now we have liquid gallium there normal solder wire at room temperature will turn back into a solid really fast this has a much lower melting point than normal soldering wire which is why you can see it's still liquid on the top so we're actually just gonna get some warm water put all these in and turn it all to liquid so we have a few of these vials we have some hot water you can see the steam coming off put them in there and should have a bunch of liquid gallium in a very short amount of time apparently to make this reaction work you actually have to scuff up the surface because the atmospheric air the normal oxygen or something will cause a reaction with the aluminum which will put a layer over the top which is impenetrable by the gallium so we've got a little wire brush here I'm just going to clean off at the top here which will scratch off that top surface layer and then the gallium will actually be able to penetrate the aluminum this is fun science guys so we have a wire wheel happy I think I could also just do it very simply with just like a screwdriver and you can just kind of go in and scratch it because all you have to do is get through that surface layer and then the gallium will penetrate the Rest by itself gallons really good at penetrating like it's a really good penetrator and then the gallium will Infuse itself into the aluminum's microcrystalline grain and I read all this on I don't know this stuff and it will start breaking apart those Bonds in the metal the microscopic bonds and so it actually will somehow spread through the whole thing I actually watched a few videos where people just put a little drop on it and it would spread through the entire thing of aluminum and then make it very brittle and so that's our plan we're going to dump all of this gallium we've bought a bunch of it we're going to melt it all dump it all in here and then you leave it for hours we're actually probably gonna leave it for like a day to let it do its work so got it pretty nice and scratched up to where it should start making its way through the metal and it theoretically will make its way through inches of aluminum this has been in here for a minute so it's melting the outside layer being set inside layers not all melted yet but this should pour look at that oh it's going down in that's actually kind of perfect so we're gonna keep melting this so we can get our gallium all down in there and we're just going to fill up this crater this crater was made not by a bullet actually this crater was made I think when they made this block and it cooled and kind of sank so we're just going to dump it all in that crater because it's perfect for holding gallium and then yeah we'll let this little science experiment run and it'll be great we put them all in here we boiled some water and set them in here uh yeah they all just started opening up so now we have gallium on the bottom of the really hot water so then I thought what if we just put them in here and like some of it's melted because it's close to room temperature and then we'll just get a torch and just sort of melt it down into the aluminum great plan it's pretty cool I think that's our new plan the ones that didn't open up they're actually all melted now so we can just pour it right in now there's some water in there too but you can see right here the there's water on top which will all evaporate and the gallium is all at the bottom this is gonna work pour it in our liquid metal good to go this is the uh stuff we spilled look how crazy it looks just rolling around there this is a steel pan so it's not going to have a reaction I was a little worried for a second that I was going to make my wife very angry at me look how cool it like rolls too whoa anyway that's what it does when it's in water hot water so I think we think we just leave it now we have a bunch of gallium sitting on the top of a big aluminum block that we have scored so we're gonna give it a bunch of hours I'm coming back destroy it or probably it might still be the same I don't actually know if it's gonna work it's been like a week and you can see it worked uh if you remember this thing was a lot smoother before the outside of it is very rough now and even this gallium up top it's all hard right now it's like it's like 68 degrees in Texas this morning so it's all hard gallium but it really tarnished the entire block which is what we were hoping for we wanted this gallium to permeate through which is what it looks like it did it goes through all of the aluminum so not just the parts it touches it somehow goes through all the microstructure of the aluminum block and messes it all up so check this out you can kind of scrape off that outside layer really easily kind of weird I don't know I I mean I have no idea if we're gonna shoot actually still dings well maybe not as much I I don't know if we're gonna shoot this and it's gonna flake apart really easily yeah it is kind of yeah like that see that chunk of aluminum that just broke off that I don't think would have done that like that before very strange and I think it just made it very brittle now hopefully we have used the magic of science and we're gonna get through this block so I actually went back and I watched my old video from five years ago and I got every single caliber the exact caliber and most of the same guns that we used in that video and we are going to shoot them all at this and compare how it does today with the gallium aluminum science experiment versus back then when it was just pure aluminum also this is hard gallium so crazy I mean this is liquid when it's above 80 degrees and it's totally solid metal when it's cold like this we're going to shoot it with 22 just to see if a 22 can go through this very thin piece of gallium I bet it will but there's only one way to know we're going to start 22 long rifle going against the solid gallium the hard gallium and this is a Ruger Mark one and it's less than a quarter inch thick I think it's going to go right through it dude it just shattered it here's our gallium that's probably that part is a quarter inch thick yeah definitely just exploded it so gallium very very brittle in its solid state now let's shoot a 22 long rifle at our aluminum block and see if it makes a bigger Dent than before I'm not going to be able to remember exactly which holes were which so we're not going to compare them all that well but this Dent right here was a 22 long rifle I remember that one because it was Tiny that little Dent is a 22. so we'll shoot the same side of the 22 and see if it is a similar size or not if it's a similar size I have a feeling this video may be a big old failure just like we did five and a half years ago out of the mark one let's see what happens so here's our hit it's a little higher than I wanted it does look bigger though slightly bigger like it's negligible all right we need to shoot nine millimeter one of these I can't remember which one of these was a nine and one was uh I think a 40 cal so we're going to go ahead and shoot a 9 and a 40 cal at it and then come investigate same gun as before this is the CC scorpion chambered in nine millimeter [Music] and this is a 40 cal Glock Glock 23 ow that's what I remember from the other video just got hit with a chunk this thing would go in make little craters and then throw stuff back at us foreign so that is our nine millimeter right there so it did knock out a chunk here which is good but it was so close to the edge but it's rough there that's where nine hit that's where our 40 cal hit 40 cal really didn't do very much hmm this is kind of make me worry that even though it looks all tarnished and looks like some kind of reaction happened maybe maybe it wasn't enough but we have bigger guns 44 magnum last time went straight through the block I'm just kidding it didn't obviously all right let's see how much damage is 44 Magnum puts on our aluminum seem good so that is it man this is actually kind of starting to worry me uh we're gonna skip ahead because it's not really doing anything and we need to get to some rifles I think I really thought a 44 magnum would make a big I'm so disappointed if this is the way it goes this video may never make it on a YouTube I might be talking to no one right now because I'm going to delete all this trash footage so I could pretty much say whatever I want right now because no one's going to see it actually don't even like guns and mayor knows everything so we're shooting 556 green tip uh and we only have iron sights which is actually going to be yeah kind of kind of tricky because oh my gosh it's so tiny there's absolutely zero way I'll hit this going hot I have three rounds I'm gonna miss all of them I'm gonna get in all my excuses early uh the wind's blowing really hard um the sun's in my eyes and I'm pretty sure that that aluminum block is smaller than it looks on camera I can't even tell I'm hitting it or not no clue I'm just gonna fire three in their general direction I got no idea thank you we are skipping to 308 uh this is the exact same rifle we used and we are shooting armor pin and trading rounds like we did in the video uh from the past 308 Silver Tip is this gun sighted in that's the real question oh we nailed it that was a armor piercing incendiary so I saw it smoke and Flash that is a 556 green tip so I actually did not think I hit it with 556 but we did we got it real good and that is a 308 AP round API round uh which as you can see which I'm very excited about knocked a big chunk out and that's a crack we have a crack in this which goes all the way down here that's good that means that we actually may have structurally altered even the inside of this block and maybe just maybe the bigger rounds are going to do something to it so the first glimmer of hope that I've had in this video that's really good I actually don't know what the other ones did the last time we shot a five five I think like one of those was five five six and 308 maybe I don't know that could have been a 762 by 39 also I'm not sure but I like what I'm seeing there you can actually see the bullet there in the 556 and the bulletin 308 it's real deep but you can see it we are going to have to go up to something bigger now maybe just maybe we can break this block in half ArmaLite AR 30 chambered in 338 Lapua it's a big old round very big and going very fast obviously lots of energy it's a big old sniper caliber and I'm gonna aim I'm gonna shoot at the same side uh that we have been shooting at I was hoping I can you know weaken it a little bit all right let's see what we can do firing foreign got it let's take a look oh it's gone hmm oh sweet this is awesome okay there's some chunks here so this is telling me that it was very brittle so here's where we're shooting went straight in here broke those pieces totally off and we have some very big fractures through this looks like Concrete in here this block totally has a very Rocky concrete appearance you can see a little bit of Shimmer of metal in there but it doesn't look like aluminum anymore which is really good ah okay this is very promising I think with a AP round out of a 50 I think we can break this block in half but there's only one way to actually no this is a 50 BMG and you can see it has a silver and a red tip this is an armored piercing incendiary Tracer AKA an apit it is the exact same round that we fired in the first aluminum Block video ah but this time we've got science on our side but we are going to say I really really hope that I can bust that block in half right now because the other video the 50 cal just buried into it and was actually pretty not very dramatic so I'm looking for drama here I really want this to work let's see what we can do now the Block's gone I didn't actually what happened to it though let's go find out first right off the bat this is good good sign right here we have chunks of gallium andized aluminum that's definitely the scientific word for that that's all we have left on the table oh my god oh here it is here's the majority of it yeah definitely definitely works oh my gosh oh this is really cool this was the top where we had put all the gallium you can kind of see where it went down in here and there's still some gallium in there all that really sparkly stuff this is so crazy so wild that we put gallium here and it penetrates all the way through here and makes all of this aluminum brittle let me grab the rest of this block there's a big old chunk of gallium that was what was in the center sitting right there so that if left in the sun long enough will melt and turn into liquid gallium again basically it's all back together exactly how it was here's how it happened we took my arch nemesis the aluminum undefeatable block and we just added a little bit of liquid metal to it and took it out I really thought this video was not going to work and we're gonna have to delete it oh I said some stuff to y'all uh I I was just kidding guys uh I love you know me I I love guns and my wife knows nothing I haven't I never tell her anything guys I'm cool I'm cool also if you want to get yourself a demonetized the most Ranch shirt Link in description below thank you guys so much for watching this episode I love you and I'll see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you it's quite simple there's only one rule in the demolition you don't tell mayor

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Length: 19min 13sec (1153 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 23 2021