Patreon Preview - Classic Chemistry: The Promethean Match
Added 2023-12-18 04:05:28 +0000 UTCAnother preview for your consideration. The promethean match.
As usual, i'm using the computer voice for editing.
Let me know if there is are any suggestions or improvements you'd like to see, or if there are any questions you'd like answered. I hope to get this out by saturday.
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I was there! hehehe j/k Actually, one of my viewers mentioned it. I did some wikipedia and internet research and i realized i had all the stuff to make it on hand. So i went for it. :)
NurdRage
2023-12-18 16:31:50 +0000 UTCNR, your knowledge of old things always knocks my socks off. How the hell did you get acquainted with these prehistoric matches?
Mono Keras
2023-12-18 16:06:28 +0000 UTCThe "explosion" may be due to the confinement of pinching with pliers. Perhaps rather than pinching, it would be safer to bend the match to snap the glass tube. Your powders look like they would have benefited from being sifted to break up lumps. I wonder if a finer fuel (starch or icing sugar) would give more consistent ignition (that is, a narrower range between a fizzle and an explosion).
Kevin Martin
2023-12-18 14:32:47 +0000 UTC
