The Ice Experiments: Molten Salt! Can TKOR Make Molten Salt Water With Ice?

Hey guys, welcome back to the dome today, we're gonna be trying out something that a ton of people have requested We're gonna try pouring molten salt into both water and ice I'm pretty sure both of these are experiments that have previously done by The Backyard Scientist and he had some really cool results He's got some great stuff on this channel Go check it out if you want to see more, but we didn't think it was fair that he had all of the fun So we want to try it out ourselves Plus we got these nifty clear blocks of ice that you can really see through pretty well and I want to see how that looks On camera. A quick run-through of how our salt pouring device works. It's a very basic frame with just this one piece It's on a hinge it's got a steel cup that our crucible fits nicely down into the first binder clip will hold the steel cup in place on the Hinge portion and then I have additional binder clips which can fit on the steel cup and that can prevent our crucible from tipping out There's a string attached to the back of the hinged portion and when that gets pulled the whole thing tips Three two one That was pretty cool the water definitely looked like he was exploding it didn't break the tank which I kind of thought it might And I'm not sure what makes the difference between breaking the tank and not breaking the tank. Maybe I need more salt Maybe they need hotter salt a lot of variables in there, but that reacted very violently and very quickly It's slightly warm water Not really hot water. I think we need to try that again Three-two-one I Honestly think this is just stronger glass than the aquarium glass well the heat from our crucible Is now starting to burn our wood. So let's take that off Nice We got another pretty good explosion that water really had a lot of energy coming out of it it was flying through the air I'm a little surprised our glass didn't break, but this glass is actually really strong stuff Remember, this is the same thing that we use as our vacuum chamber It can hold a surprising amount the pressure apparently both pushing from the outside and from the inside So I don't think there's any cracks or breaks on this So it really did a good job of containing all of our water and while it may have been exciting to watch it explode It's good to know how strong these things are Really our binder clips are quite warm Yeah, we did manage to catch fire to the hinged portion of our little device here that was fun not unsurprising though overall though I think this pouring device works pretty nicely Now we've tried a couple times pouring it into water I want to see what happens if we pour our molten salt into a block of ice Here, we've got a block of ice probably weighs about 20 pounds and this is ice that's designed for ice carving Which means it is super clear. You can see through this ice pretty darn Well, I've drilled a hole about halfway down through the block of ice which you can see through the side We're gonna try pouring some salt down into that hole and see what happens You do a test I'm gonna fill this with water and see where it pours so I can have the block lined up in just the right spot It was still warm There's some pours That's where it lands first It's probably a pretty good spot All right. Let's get some salt melting put it into our pouring device and pour it into a block of ice That sound three two one Missed I think oh I think it still is cracking the surface of the block. I just saw their tiny little cracks appearing in it and then they Seal up right away. Oh It looks like a lot of our salt Landed on the back of the block and didn't really get down into the drilled out hole of it So we'll try scooting the block back and doing this again three two one Ha ha ha Wow, all right. Well it didn't blow up the block of ice but that was Amazingly loud. That was pretty much an explosion right there. Holy cow We have sort of an echo chamber in the dome behind us. But that was really loud. It sounded like a gunshot surprised We didn't crack the block quite surprised Take this thing off before it lights my whole contraption on fire This will be unwise but I'm just gonna pour the rest rest of this little salt right on there Wow is so loud That's nuts the blocks of icing you can usually buy at the grocery store or something like that are just chipped ice that have been compressed Down into a block and they're not nearly as strong as a solid clear block of ice Although I bet we could get one of those to blow up if we had a slightly different layout Perhaps if we had a taller block with a longer hole drilled down into it We would be able to get more salt down inside the ice and instead of shooting up into the air like we had here More of it would push outward that might be something that we try in the future I do happen to have one of these blocks of compressed ice. Let's see what happens when we pour a little salt into here Three two one Exploded pretty well exactly as far as I had drilled the hole I Had really only drilled to about that far in because I have a short drill bit That's how deep it exploded. And then after it exploded salt tunnel the way down in That was pretty explosive Guys we've tried a couple different things with molten salt and ice and I haven't seen the result I was most hoping for which is to see the block of ice crack open or even possibly explode So I've got another block of clear ice. It's actually an entirely different day I came back up here with the new block of ice I've got more salt melting in the foundry and we're gonna try this one more time in addition to being a new block of ice This one is actually also a little bit thicker and I've drilled the hole a little bit deeper down into it So hopefully there will be more molten salt down inside the ice Transferring heat around at the same time three two one Woah it exploded Great Yeah Whoo. Oh, that was beautiful Beautiful. Look at that. That is a clean Crack ting like you didn't fragment everywhere. Basically just tore the block in half That is interesting. So I guess not terribly surprisingly it tries to take the path of least resistance This block was thicker left to right than it was front to back and it cracked along the thinner axis That is the result that I was hoping for So a larger block of ice with a hole drilled farther down into it gave us a much more explosive result Yeah, you can see how it went all back together that Was beautiful 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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Id: 73phHyBizec

Length: 8min 43sec (523 seconds)

Published: Fri May 18 2018