Red Hot Cannonball Vs Styrofoam Tower

hey guys backyard scientists here today we have these giant stacks of styrofoam that I cut up and we also have this giant cannonball that I'm gonna heat up until it's glowing red-hot and we're gonna drop it through the stacks of styrofoam now the question is do you think it'll fall straight through like nothing's even there or do you think it'll get stopped in the black styrofoam place your bets down below in the comments section and let's get started I bought four sheets of the styrofoam insulation from Home Depot and then I figuratively cut them up into a billion pieces and I used bamboo skewers to make them into the towers there are still a little bit wobbly so I made a little stand in my backyard to help support them anyway the first thing we're gonna be doing is an iron ball this takes about 20 minutes to heat up in the boundary and after that it's about 2,000 or almost even 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit so let's get started [Music] one good thing I'm wearing up face master this stuff stinks I can smell it through them ma'am let's store I thought we can do it again and let's do it again alright that was pretty cool last time I thought I was gonna fall way faster than it did it actually took like a couple seconds per story to break through that styrofoam and something else pretty cool I noticed is that the fire went out by itself I thought I was gonna have a huge goopy massive styrofoam but I think that stuff's coated it with something or it's fire resistant cuz it normally if you'd set styrofoam on fire like it doesn't stop burning until it's gone now I want to try it with double the styrofoam so this is a ceramic mat it's actually the same material I used to build my foundry and it can support the 2,000 degree Fahrenheit thorny gradient over one inch so it's perfectly safe to hold it alright now let's drop it in three two one oh my gosh oh look at it it's right there alright so we can't actually do any more with this ball because I got it so hot it melted that's like at least 2,600 degrees maybe like 2,800 I built this foundry to melt copper and it's really good at it so now let's pour some copper on the styrofoam and see what happens okay here I come now I have this piece of wood here so if I pour it it won't splash down on me let's hope it works [Music] oh yeah that copper melted through that styrofoam in a fraction of the time pretty much it just created a small hole and all the copper fell right down behind it so it made a pretty huge mess and a lot of smoke I was worried the fire department was gonna come that's a lot of that was a lot of smoke I'm surprised like the fire department's not gonna come this styrofoam may be fire retardant but it is no match for 2,000 degree molten copper it instantly ignites the second it touches it and man does it ignite that the whole thing caught on fire the whole thing pretty much melted away so at least I don't have to fill up our landfill and now a word from our sponsors recently I went on a road trip with my girlfriend we converted my SUV into a mini camper I removed all the seats and put in a wood floor and that wood floor was kind of uncomfortable to sleep on Casper sent me a mattress and it's way more comfortable Casper is an online retailer of premium mattresses at a fraction of the cost and they combine two technologies which is springy latex foam and supportive memory foam to create an award-winning sleep surface just the right amount of sink and just the right amount can bounce Casper offers free delivery and painless returns with a hundred day period so you don't have to lay down and take a nap in the showroom and as a bonus Casper's mattresses are made in the USA you can save $50 towards the purchase of a new mattress when you go to Casper calm slash backyard and enter the promo code backyard again that's Casper comm slash backyard and enter the promo code backyard terms and conditions apply there's free shipping to the US and Canada well that was a fun video guys I hope you enjoyed it the fire department never did show up so yay we get to keep making videos or should we be worried about the quality of on fire right no don't call them out they'll come next time so see you guys fight [Music] you

Channel: TheBackyardScientist

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Keywords: red hot, red hot cannonball, red hot ball, styrofoam ball, red hot styrofoam ball, ball in styrofoam, styrofoam, molten copper styrofoam

Id: -_AshChTEY0

Length: 5min 49sec (349 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 13 2016