TheBackyardScientist

In this video I explore some crazy ways to cook an egg, and kind of go into the science behind it. Plus, its a great excuse to break out the flamethrower! Making a squirt gun flamethrower is very dangerous. I get a lot of emails asking advice on building a flamethrower: I can't stop you from doing it, so I will give you real advice below...... If you play with fire you will get burned, and expect/plan for the worst to happen - The gun catches fire and sprays you with flaming liquid. Squirt gu

Nobody better pinch me on St.Patricks day for not wearing any green!! Bored on spring break? looking for a project? Look no further! In this video I make and demonstrate how I made a green flamethrower from a squirt gun, antifreeze (methanol), and Roach killer (Boric Acid). I hacked this squirt gun flamethrower together for only $10! The ratio of methanol/boric acid :12oz of methanol 1 teaspoon of boric acid. I do this so you don't have to :).. or so your parents wont yell at you for melting

Pretty cool huh? The fire rings are amazing! How do you guys like the new style of video? In this video I show how easy it is to make a vortex shooter out of an old paint bucket. All you need to make the vortex ring cannon is an old paint bucket, something to cut it with, and a garbage bag! Add a little butane and you can shoot fire vortex from across the room! Add some smoke and you can be shooting smoke rings! I drew inspiration for this video after attending a X-LABS show at University of S

Its so easy to turn an old tv into an oscilloscope, I filmed this entire video in a few hours. Inspiration for this project http://www.crackedraytube.com/pdfs/oscillographic_tv_tutorial.pdf Song 1 : "Free instrumental royalty free" Music Produced by Nick Ngo Bangerz https://soundcloud.com/thebangerz/free-instrumental-royalty-free Song 2 : "DJ Fresh - Gold Dust (Flux Pavilion Remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEbJ4qLiMu0 * Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act

Underwater explosions using Dry Ice, and Liquid Nitrogen, and captured in high definition slow motion. Hey guys, Backyard Scientist here. I this video I throw water bottles filled with dry ice, and liquid nitrogen into my pool. This is seriously cool. The resulting explosions are earth-shaking powerful. I was curious to see what would happen to a human if they were underwater when this happened, so I fixed a couple balloons to a weight underwater. The explosion compresses the gas inside the

Backyard Scientist Merch! https://outloudmerch.com/collections/backyard-scientist Twitter: @ChemicalKevy http://twitter.com/ChemicalKevy Move over AntHillArt, theres a new guy in town! So today I decided I was going to pour molten aluminum on something. I just finished a new propane powered furnace and I wanted to put it to the test! I don't know why my brain jumped to watermelon, but I'm glad it did. What was going to be a way to waste the afternoon turned into an amazing discovery! Th

Aloha fellow scientists! Have you ever seen anything so cool? So after watching NightHawkInLight's video I knew I had to do this. It was easy to do, all I needed was a TS8000 torch, and 10 feet of 7/8 tubing from the hardware store. Inspiration for this video NightHawkInLights video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXoqw-_uDx4 The torch is self-igniting, meaning it has an electric sparker built in. When the button is pressed halfway, the torch mixes a perfect combination of propane and air i

Not everybody has the equipment to melt aluminum, but pewters low melting point makes metal-casting available to everybody! Its melting point is so low, you can melt it in your kitchen. Pewter is mostly tin, with a little bit of antimony and copper. Its use dates all the way back to the ancient Egyptians, but you don't need to rob graves for it. Its a common item to find in thrift shops! Cups, pitchers, bowls, plates, and candle-sticks can all be made out of pewter. Buying it at a thrift store

Ever wonder what would happen If you poured molten aluminum into a lava lamp? Me neither. Well, you voted, I listened! Some of my viewers on my Facebook, and G+ pages suggested that I pour molten aluminum into a Lava Lamp. That sounded awesome so I set out to buy the biggest one them make..27"! After I got it, I was sad it was going to break because I really liked it. I hope this video gets enough views so I can buy another one! I melted down about a pound or two of aluminum and poured it into

Ive been pouring 7 different metals into a 24" tall aquarium over the weekend, and the results have been super cool! I poured metals with different melting points to see if they had any different effects when they came in contact with water. From Pewter (350f/170c) all the way to Thermite (4000f/2204c). Some of them exploded, some of them sank and made molten metal drippy-castles, but they were all interesting. Here is a list of metals I used, and their melting points: Pewter 338–446 °F - 170–

Im going to show you how to make rockets using CO2 cartridges. These are used for Airsoft, Paintball, and BB guns. They contain high pressure Carbon Dioxide gas behind a thin metal disc. If you puncture the disc, the gas will escape and propel the rocket fast! Its not a replacement for black powder engines, but they can be just as fun, just watch where they land! Oh and try not to get blasted in the face like I did. I think I got dry ice in my sinus :( Krusty Krab song - https://www.youtube.

Today I am going to show you how to make rainbow colored flames out of household materials. Whats your favorite color??? Lithium from batteries burns red, Calcium chloride in Damp-Rid burns orange, Sodium in table salt burns yellow, boron in roach killer burns green, methanol burns blue all by itself, and potassium in No-salt burns purple. I read all my comments, but sometimes I miss a few! If you need help with a project you are welcome to email me :) On my Facebook, G+, and Twitter page

3 mini experiments rolled into 1 nice video! Its been raining all week, so I got to stay in and play with my new camera! I made a Fire-saber, and I recorded cool footage like watching a fire race across the floor, and hitting a water soaked screen. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it! Im thinking about starting a new mini-series "slow motion Saturdays" got any suggestions? Before anybody asks, the name of the first song is 'Jessica' by the allman brothers, remixed by

Soaking tennis balls in gasoline? What can go wrong! BIG thanks to fans "thedestructionator01" and "TheWakimaniac" for giving me ideas to try! I read all my comments, but sometimes I miss a few! If you need help with a project you are welcome to email me :) On my Facebook, G+, and Twitter page I post questions, polls, and sneak peeks into my next video. Im always looking for my fans input! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBackyardScientistOfficial Twitter: @ChemicalKevy http://twitter.co

Welcome back to Slow Motion Saturday! This week is about electricity and plasma. So out first suggestion come from user xZxDerpDragonxZx.. He wants me to DO SOMETHING WITH PLASMA. well thats a pretty general suggestion but i know just the thing *slam microwave transformer* Its a microwave oven transformer. You've seen me use this in my other videos like woodturning with electricity, or cooking an egg with high voltage. Plasma, like solid liquid and gas is considered a state of matter. Plasma i

Today i test some snapper experiments.

I thought it would be fun to film propane balloons exploding in slow motion, and I tried popping them a bunch of different ways. I took some user suggestions like flying a drone with a sparkler attached into a balloon, and filling a balloon with a explosive mixture of propane and oxygen and detonating it underwater. I also thew spears at the balloons and hit them with steel wool. I did not directly handle any of the balloons filled with gas, instead I safely filled them from the propane tank wi

Link to KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3dsimo-mini/3dsimo-mini-make-your-vision-come-true Ive always wanted to play with a 3D pen, they look pretty fun. Ive figured out some practical uses, like turning plastic into metal, and 'welding' broken plastic together. Its easy to turn any 3D drawn or 3D printed plastic object into metal. You just need to encase it in plaster, and drill some holes through the plaster to the object. Thats so you can melt out the plastic, leaving a h

Enjoy! If you think shooting Oobleck with a BB gun is cool.. Check out Taofledermaus, he shoots oobleck with a real gun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ThtQkkXvdo

The first Molten Aluminum video in a long time! After last weeks Oobleck video, many of you suggested for me to pour molten aluminum into Oobleck. It sounded like a fun experiment so I gave it a go! If you want to see another cool Oobleck experiment, Taofledermaus poured mercury into a cupfull of oobleck, link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYirXMNkEQ8 Thanks TechForYou for the suggestion!

Pouring molten aluminum in a watermelon turned out to be really popular, So I poured aluminum in two more melons, honeydew and cantaloupe. It turned out really cool, giving a perfect cast of the inside of a melon. It looked just like a hand grenade! https://www.facebook.com/TheBackyardScientistOfficial

I was on Reddit yesterday, and I saw a cool GIF on r/woahdude. It looked so cool I had to do it. Also people were debating on how fast the ball was really spinning, and I had to find out for myself so I grabbed my camera that can shoot up to 1000fps. The original poster estimated the speed at 10,000 rpm, but the ball was really spinning 30,000 rpm in my experiments!

What happens when you fill a ping pong ball with extremely flammable propane, then light it on fire? Does it spin really fast, or make a cool noise, or explode? The answer is yes! Last video, I made a mistake. I forgot to set one of these on fire! Well thats kinda my thing, so today I set out to fill a pingpong ball with propane and set it on fire. I used a hose with a 20ga needle on the end to pump propane directly into the ping pong ball. I put a torch on my wooden bench and threw gas fille

You have probably heard of steel wool before. You can burn it and swing it around to create amazing sparks and effects. I thought it would be fun to attach steel wool to a drone and fly it around a beach at night. It turned our really cool. I also attached sparklers to the drone and flew it around. Sparklers last way longer than steel wool, and im sure everybody on the beach was impressed as It flew down the shore.

The inside of a pumpkin has a pretty interesting geometry. I had the idea to cast the inside to see what it looks like, but the inside of the pumpkin is very fragile and the 1000 degree aluminum pretty much destroys it as soon as it comes in contact with the soft flesh. I thought freezing the pumpkin would provide more structural support, so I froze the pumpkin from the inside out with liquid nitrogen. My thermometer can only measure to -36f (-38c), and the pumpkin was colder than that. Liquid

In this video I team up the The Proper People to make blow huge fireballs and spin steel wool in an abandoned mine! You can watch their video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRmkv30STSc All you need to make these fireballs is cornstarch. Just grab a hand full and blow it onto a flame. This is probably the safest way to blow fire...Just remember to blow hard enough to keep the fireball away from your face! I souped up this experiment by loading a whole box of cornstarch into a air cann

https://www.facebook.com/TheBackyardScientistOfficial Today I put the Leidenfrost effect to the test! Im trying out a great question from somebody on my facebook page. He wanted to know if a hot object will fall faster than a cold object through water. I set up my fishtank and dropped red-hot steel balls through water to see if they fall faster. This would be a great science fair project if you don't burn down your house.

Backyard Scientists T-Shirts! Limited Edition campaign, buy one now! - http://shop.crowdmade.com/collections/backyardscientist/ I packed a fishtank completely full of water balls (water beads, water balz, orbeez, spitballs...). Im guessing there are over 10,000 in there! Anyway, I melted a bunch of old aluminum pipes and poured them into the fishtank hoping to create a cool design. And it worked perfectly! These are really unique, no two pieces are alike. Vat 19 was nice enough to supply me

Today I make a REAL hoverboard out of dry ice! It doesn't lift you high into the air like back to the future, but it perfectly emulates the feeling! Its just a wooden board with a rim around the edge to hole 3 blocks of dry-ice in place. As the dry ice sublimates, the pressure from the expanding gas is enough greatly reduce surface friction and you can glide on any smooth surface. The wood floor in this video was far from perfect, but it did the job pretty well! I would consider this a real hov