Is Molten Aluminum Bulletproof?

hey you guys backyard scientist here something you wonder how I come up with these crazy ideas well the answer is pretty simple I have my idea of much Ron right here so let's and molten aluminum you witness around I tubs stealing my Hawaiian t-shirts alright guys so it looks like today we are doing multi Lumina versus bullets and I know I've kind of done this before already but this time I think I'm going to shoot the bullet at the molten aluminum to see if it's bulletproof now I know it sounds weird but here's my thinking that maybe the molten aluminum is so hot the bullet will hit the molten aluminum and just melt on the inside because it's like a thousand degrees blood has a pretty low melting temperature so maybe it'll just enter the container melt on the inside and it won't come out the back of the container also Wix is sponsoring this video I think I'm legally required to say that so stay tuned alright so while we're waiting for the aluminum tavella I'd like to take this time do you think Wix for sponsoring this video because I'm sure without them this video wouldn't make any money because it's probably going to get demonetized within the first couple hours of me posting it YouTube just like that sometimes so Thank You Wix anyway if you haven't heard about Wix before Wix is a free platform that allows you to build highly customizable robust and professional websites you can use the advanced drag-and-drop tools to create a fantastic website quickly and efficiently you can use Wix to build a website for almost any purpose a website to build a business share your projects or to sell something cool do you make Wix offers hundreds of templates unlimited pages and top-grade hosting for a free upgrade to one of the premium plans to get even more I wanted a website where I could answer some questions sell some merch and post some extra content that couldn't quite make it into videos so if you want to build your own website for any reason go to Wix comm slash go slash backyard to get started building your free Wix website today for more features upgrade to a yearly premium plan and get 15% off with my code backyard 15 well it looks like the aluminum has melted and the ballistic gel has solidified so let's get a start on this bad idea all right so here's our ballistic gel now the first test we're going to do is shoot it with the pellet gun and see how far well it goes into the ballistic gel then we're gonna compare it to the test with the molten aluminum inside of the ballistic gel all right so that definitely went straight through on the high-speed pretty much looked like it offered no resistance to the pellet it's got a kind of cool little trail behind it you see that yeah so now what we're going to do is cut some ballistic gel out of here and then pour molten aluminum into it and then shoot it with the pellet gun and see if the molten aluminum stops the pellet from coming out the back so I think when I pour the molten aluminum in here it's going to like instantly start melting towards the bottom so I pretty much have to pour it in here and run over there and then shoot it with the gun so it's going to be pretty stressful hopefully I can even hit it oh man so I'm gonna pour this in then we're gonna just run over and like get to the gun and get to the high-speed camera because it might not last very long here we go [Music] now this was awesome this is exactly what I hoped would happen the bullet would hit the molten aluminum and it would just shoot up into the air like splatter way up into the air yeah that was pretty intense I had to do all that really fast and you can see the bullet went BB went in there and it didn't go through the molten aluminum just like that's hard to tell when the tables on fire yes well I would say that this result was inconclusive because that was kind of a small amount of aluminum in a small bullet so I say that we scale this up bigger and better and see what kind of results we get then so this is my friend BJ right here he's gonna be taking this shot on the molten aluminum today what are we using to shoot the molten aluminum scar 16s five five six check it out yeah that's that's a gold scar right there and it's better than gold scar all right so you think you can hit that target over there what do you thinks gonna happen think molten aluminum bulletproof or no I think it is bulletproof do you think so I think so I don't know I remember the Terminator he's made out of molten metal both we're going right through him yeah yeah we'll see no from alien alien stuff - we'll see but I think it'll bulletproof wasn't well if I check this out gram it's like the red hot in here and ready to go so we're just gonna pour it in here and I'm gonna run it down there and then we're gonna send it Genda just for comparison this is what we were shooting before versus what we're going to be shooting the aluminum with now here's our ballistic gel you got to keep it cold because it'll actually melt when it's hotter than like 90 degrees out and it's like 95 right now so it'll slowly melt so this is going to be the witness block behind it so if it goes through the molten aluminum we'll see the bullet impact on this block of ballistic gelatin so while I was taking care of the molten aluminum my friends were helping in their own way so many bowls baby holy all right I'm gonna run this down here let's go boom right there right in front of the ballistic gel oh it's gonna go through here we'll see what happens all right you go over there I'm gonna get the high speed okay watch out for the aluminum okay so it didn't go in but did it come out see if you can let's see it inside of it it looks like something hit it but it could have just been the force of a bunch of molten goo hitting and just going through wood could be it because there's no like cavitation usually with these you see cavitation I guess we're gonna have to shoot to get on the high-speed Dennis I think we're gonna have to do another test that was inconclusive very inconclusive all right run it down there get ready to fire it off [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] oh man the tables on fire do a fire extinguisher we shut all the fire yes we shot all the fire extinguishers we got a mess to clean up holy crap so okay look at this this is awesome you can see it so the bullet definitely went right through the ballistic gel if it's so much molten aluminum in this oh my god so slimy so slimy so many bullets in this alright so I think you nailed it perfectly right there right where this glob is that is solidified aluminum and went through that hole and came out that side right there cuz you can see how that's peeled backwards like that after we picked up all the aluminum I noticed some of them had some pretty cool shapes from the aluminum melting down into the grass and spreading out between the roots get some pretty neat shapes so is molten aluminum bulletproof I'd say that is a no because I mean look at this but I was wrong I definitely thought the bullet would melt in the aluminum it did not so maybe not the result that I wanted but we definitely got in a cool video so thanks for watching guys and I'll see you next week

Channel: TheBackyardScientist

Views: 1,198,753

Rating: 4.8676457 out of 5

Keywords: molten aluminum, backyard scientist

Id: 0EM946JAv7M

Length: 8min 38sec (518 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 30 2019