Melting Batteries in Liquid Metal

We have to buy my grandma a new pan Please leave that in the video Hey guys I'm Nate. I'm Zack from the YouTube channel JerryRigEverything Today we're back at the dome and we're gonna be doing a few experiments that involve lithium batteries in some molten aluminum And one of those batteries is still inside of this iPhone. We've got our aluminum. We've got our furnace. Let's get started This is why I like filming inside the dome. That doesn't look half as good when you're outside All right our furnace is nice and hot, our aluminum is nice and melted down inside Zach what's the plan? So we have some lithium batteries that we're gonna toss in the aluminum because lithium is very reactive And I'm excited to see what happens with that But I also have this iPhone here in one of my previous videos that has a bunch of scratch marks on it I scratched it up with diamonds because the diamonds are super hard level ten on Most scale one thing I'm curious about though is that the back of this iPhone is made from aluminum And I'm curious to see how that reacts with the molten aluminum inside of the furnace. So we'll take our crucible out... We'll set it on the rock and then Zach is going to be putting his iPhone down inside the melted aluminum We'll see if it survives or not I bet it doesn't All right Yeah, I'd say now just drop it in and run away Oh [laughs]. It's sick. Oh looks good Is the screen still working? I doubt it [laughs] though it went off very quickly. [laughs] That is sweet I did not expect the outer aluminium to catch fire I wonder if it's like the... It's anodized so that might be doing it. The anodizing? Yeah. I don't know what that process and chemical is, but that's probably more flamable than raw aluminium. Yeah Aw dude, the whole thing's melting That's almost like a sweet smell to it... Ooh, the camera lens is on fire All right Zach now you get to fix it. [Zach] Yeah... You have a tutorial on how to repair this? What we've got here is an iPhone that has been burned to a crisp Everywhere half of the back melted off and pooled into our aluminum That was already in the crucible And we've just exposed and destroyed all of the internal workings of it one interesting thing is that the glass lens right here well Sapphire lens of the iPhone is drizzled out and it's melted all over the upper part of the aluminum panel So that's you can see that how it melted their sapphire Is that low of a melting point? so Apple Sapphire isn't as pure as regular sapphire, okay I did some tests on that on my channel But that would be curious to see what the melting point of sapphire actually is Because I mean aluminum has its temperature it does And then all of the glass on the screen is now gone as well, so you can see the aluminum back plate of the screen That's sitting between the LCD and the internals of the phone But as far as the glass goes on the front gone. On the back one thing that I thought was curious since we're dipping lithium-ion batteries inside of aluminum the pouch style batteries that are inside of iPhones have Different anode cathode layers to them and you can see all these layers holding up and around the battery itself. Which is interesting that These survived while the aluminum panel didn't it's similar to the other lithium batteries that we're gonna try putting in the aluminum They have the same idea except. They're rolled up circular coil yeah. One iPhone completely destroyed by being half submerged into molten aluminum now Let's move on to trying our other lithium batteries and see what happens with those in similar situations All right, we've got our aluminum heated back up, and we've got some of these lithium batteries And we're gonna try dropping those into our crucible, so I'm gonna drop mine in negative side first And he's gonna drop his positive side first aluminum is conductive this amount of voltage probably won't do anything But it's worth a shot one other thing I'm curious about is what this shell on the outside the battery is made of if it's aluminum It should dissolve just like the iPhone case did But if it's steel or something else it should remain intact right it might be steel, but I'm not positive Only one way to find out That looks sweet you can see the glowing bits inside There's not as much slag as I thought that would be I think probably a lot of stuff has burned up and It's possible some stuff. That's not so flammable has fallen to the bottom true One two drop. [Explosion] oh shoot [laughs] What in the world dude, it's like a sparkler It's like one of those fountain things you light up on the 4th of July. That's amazing. No, wait it's exactly like a firework. That is so cool. Ohh See I've burned lithium batteries before, I kind of knew what it was gonna do I had no idea what that was gonna end like. was great Looks like that's both of them it exploded both women everywhere. I'm out. Oh Oh One of the batteries missed it might have been mine, I didn't see mine splash you knows what I was running away Oh, I'm not sure one of us failed replay the slow-motion. Yep, all right your turn Nice it's in its flaming it's gonna pop! And now We'll get to the second stage where it where it sparkles, sparks and... Jet of, I wish the iPhone would have done that that was sweet Jet of pink fire That's epic so if your carcass is still in the molten aluminum right so the explosion was probably just the carcass splitting let's tear this open and see like what exactly what happened with the heat I Don't think the shell is aluminum in otherwise it would have melted Yeah, all right So it looks like just one of the ends blew out on both of these this it's a positive side or the negative side? I think it's the positive side that breaks off because I've dismantled these before and they have sort of a cap on the positive side Underneath the wrapper so you can kind of see the cap right here That was pretty sweet dropping those batteries down into the crucible, but I think we can go more. Don't you? We might as well, so we've got a whole bunch of these batteries left We're gonna try throwing them into this pot pan pan And then we're gonna pour our molten aluminum all over them and hopefully they'll all ignite who's doing the pouring you or me? How brave do you feel? I think you should be doing the pouring I'll be doing the pouring perfect all right. Cool that is Toasty I see that probably every time it always impresses me when it's glowing orange like that Alright, so I would say you have like probably five seconds before six explosions start tossing molten aluminum your direction That is probably very true So I will definitely try to pour and back off as fast as I can I'm gonna go stand over here Away from you. That's a good choice three! two! one! Oh it spilled out of the container alot, yeah boiled over one two three five I Lost track I think that's five They should start hissing here, that's six This is amazing its just like a firework show well that was a bit too close that was at least 15 feet that was quite a shot ohh That was more like 25 feet That was the finale right there that went off and that was the end Wow one final big explosion that was great Ha Ha A whole bunch of battery carcasses And again still something worth quite a bit of liquid in fact. That's aluminum for you with it's very high specific heat It does not like to transition easily between one state and another That was beautiful. Got a big chunk out. We've still got some some nice pink flame here. I think that's some of the lithium still burning right there. That's sort of magenta color Lithium batteries dropped into molten aluminum sometimes inside an iPhone. It worked out pretty well, The reaction was much more intense with the batteries themselves, but it was still it shouldn't see what's inside of an iPhone Using metal to dissolve the metal around it really not the most conventional way to open up a phone And I think it's probably a little beyond all repair. Yeah even for him, but that was a lot of fun. We got some great and almost violent reactions from those lithium batteries exploding the last one especially it shot sparks 25 feet those pretty nuts fortunately it didn't seem to send any molten aluminum flying it was just like little bits of sparks From the batteries themselves, but it looked really cool. Hey guys Thanks for watching if you're not a subscriber Yet hit the bomb to get in the club! If you missed our last video Or you want to watch it again click up here at the top Click down there if you want to see what the internet thinks you should watch next That's it for now. Have fun. Be safe. See you tomorrow.

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Length: 10min 32sec (632 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 17 2018