Fluorine chemistry
Added 2024-07-28 11:17:12 +0000 UTCI’ve just finished up a few days in Berlin where I was lucky enough to film some of the most powerful oxidisers ever made. Some really fascinating chemistry and I can’t wait to make this all into the video.
In the first picture you can see liquid oxygen floating on liquid fluorine, which gets exposed to UV light turning it into FOOF - a chemical that has sort of entered pop science as a thing that exists, but this may be the first time ever this reaction has been filmed?? So, again, I’m very excited to bring it to you.
I’ve still got a bit more content to film in Germany, but mostly I’m just so thankful to you all for sponsoring the videos and allowing me to take on some high budget projects like this. Not every project uses up the Patreon budget, but that means when an opportunity like this Berlin trip arises- I’m still able to take it on, even without a sponsor section!! So that’s fantastic.
Video should hopefully be out in August, and there will a second channel video or two about other side things which are interesting to me, but more technical than the rapid pace of theEx&F videos.
Thanks!
Tom
Comments
Damn I was worried when i saw fluorine. shed + fluorine chem = fluorine&expire
Francis Malinovsky
2024-08-06 23:17:16 +0000 UTCOooh, this should be great. First heard about that over ten years ago on Derek Lowe's blog in Things I Won't Work With. I was very concerned, when first seeing that heading, that you were angling to get added to the list of Fluorine victims over on Lateral Science.
DSC
2024-07-28 22:36:36 +0000 UTCI’m very excited to see the videos!! Sounds like you are having a blast;)
Sarah Urfer
2024-07-28 16:07:23 +0000 UTC"Explosions and Fire: Beyond The Shed" has a nice ring to it
AlliePiper
2024-07-28 12:00:46 +0000 UTCHaha thank you for being immediately concerned rather than excited that I was attempting fluorine chemistry in the shed. Some things are just beyond the shed and that’s ok
Explosions&Fire
2024-07-28 11:56:02 +0000 UTCI was worried as fuck you were doing flourine chem in the shed when I saw the notification.
Brent Whitlock
2024-07-28 11:52:04 +0000 UTCFOOF an abomination :D
criki357
2024-07-28 11:21:38 +0000 UTCMaking foof is pretty awesome. Hope you get to make something exciting with it too :-)
Jake Anderson
2024-07-28 11:19:23 +0000 UTC
