All videos are taken from the pages of "Bangs, Flashes, and Explosions", an Illustrated Collection of Chemistry Demonstrations and Activities.
Chapter 1
: Introductory Demonstrations - Edible Candle, Cooking with Paper, Fireproof Balloon, Seeing Through Paper, Disappearing Coffee cup, Acid-In-The-Eye, Flame Jump, Needle Through a Balloon, Match Making, Fireproof Money.
Chapter 2
: Density - Sunken Ice Cube, Sugar Density Column, Levitating Golf Ball, Carbon Dioxide Candle Tank, Density Paradox
Chapter 3
: Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures - Thixotropy and Dilatency - Oobleck, Shrinking Liquids
Chapter 4
: Energy and Thermodynamics - 25 Cent Phase Transition, Gummy Bear Sacrifice, Energy from Food Oxidation, Catalytic Acetone Combustion, Chemical Super Glue, Sugar Pyrotechnics, Canned Heat, Bug "Bomb", Matchless Fire, Chlorination of Acetylene, Carbon Dance, Reaction of Carbon and Potassium Nitrate, MRE Chemistry, Calcium Oxide Dilution.
Chapter 5
: Waves, Electrons, Atomic Theory, and Periodic Trends - Rutherford Experiment Simulation, Total Internal Reflection, Colored Flames, Throwing Flames, Bengal Flames, Flaming Tornado, The Incredible Glowing Pickle, Alkali Metal Reactivity.
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Chapter 6 : Chemical Bonding - Alchemy - Changing Copper to Gold. Chapter 7 : Chemical Reactions - Ammonium Chloride Smoke Rings, Other Smoke and Fog Machines, Reaction of Sodium Peroxide and Sulfur, Reaction of Chlorine and Copper, Reaction of Bromine and Aluminum Metal, Reaction of Chlorine with Aluminum, Combustion of Sulfur, Nitrocellulose (Gun Cotton), CD/DVD "Burner", Reaction of Iron and Sulfur, Reaction of Iron and Chlorine, Reaction of Zinc and Iodine, Reaction of Zinc and Sulfur, Combustion of Iron, Pyrophoric Silane, Elephant Toothpase, Carbon Snake, Reaction of Phosphorus Pentoxide and Water, Feather-Initiated Explosion of Peroxyacetone, Magnesium and Silver Nitrate Flash, Ammonium Dichromate Volcano, Chlorine and Antimony Firefall, Magnesium Thermoluminecence, Reaction of Sodium and Chlorine, Oxidation Bangs and Flashes, Oxidation of Magnesium by Potassium Permanganate, Reaction of Copper Salts and Aluminum, Ripping a Soda Can, Acetylene Rockets, Chemistry of the Miner's Carbide Lamp.
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Chapter 8 : Synthesizing Water - Hydrogen Balloon Explosion, The H2 Jug, Hydrogen-Powered Bubbles, Hydrogen-Powered Bottle Rockets, Making Water in a Can, Egg-Splosion, Pringles "Light" Exploding Can. Chapter 9 : Solutions - Sodium Acetate Stalagmites, Heating with Sulfuric Acid, The Seltzer Quick-Freeze, Lead Iodide Tornado, Precipitation Reactions, Limewater Conductivity, Admiral Fitzroy Stormglass. Chapter 10 : Gas Laws - The Flaming Vapor Ramp, Balloon in a Bottle, Egg in a Bottle, Hero's Engine, Boyles Bottle, Methane Mamba, Imploding Bottle, Chemistry Tiki Lamp, Chapter 11 : Acid/Base Chemistry -
Chapter 12 : Oxidation/Reduction Reactions - Lightning Under Water, Making Molten Iron (Thermite Reaction), Classic Blue-Bottle Reaction; Traffic Light Demonstration, Thionin Photochemical Reaction, Mercury "Beating Heart", "Purple Haze" (Iodine and Aluminum), Reaction of Ethanol and Chromium (IV) Oxide, Two-Cent Reaction of Copper and Nitric Acid Chapter 13 : Dry Ice and Liquid Nitrogen Demonstrations - Shivering Quarter, Reaction of Magnesium and Carbon Dioxide, Explosive Carbon Dioxide Decompression, Liquid Nitrogen-Propelled Ping-Pong Balls, Charles Law with Liquid Nitrogen, Liquid Nitrogen Saltine Snacks, Flash-Freeze Ice Cream with Liquid Nitrogen, Preparation and Properties of Liquid Oxygen Chapter 14 : Equilibrium - Sodium Chloride Crystallization with Hydrochloric Acid, LeChatelier's Principle with Cobalt Chloride, Eerie Green Glow Light Chapter 15 : Electrochemistry - Multi-Colored Electrolysis, Fluidic Motor Chapter 16 : Polymers - Polyethylene Oxide Self-Siphoning Gel, Glue Slime, Guar Gum Gak, Polyvinyl Alcohol Slime, Super Ball, Styrofoam Chapter 17 : Reaction Rates - Oscillating Methanol Explosion, Alcohol Jug Jet, Genie-in-a-Bottle, Benzoyl Peroxide and Analine Smoke, Simulated Grain Silo Explosion, Dragon's Breath, Firefly Reaction, The Ostwald Process: Ammonia Oxidation Chapter 18 : Nuclear Chemistry - Mousetrap Chain Reaction, Cloud Chamber, Meissner Effect
Chapter 19 : Sure-Fire Crowd Pleasers - The Burning Book of Science, Fiery Acoustical Tube, Paraffin Ejection Fountain, Flaming Wax Wonders, Making Glass, Cork Rocket Chain Reaction, Alcohol Rocketry, Sodium Peroxide and Aluminum, Ferrofluid, Photon-Initiated Explosion, Flaming Ice, Plasma Balls and Other Microwave Phenomena, Classic Potato Cannon, Calcium Carbide Cannon, Hardening Water, Fiery Smokescreen, Pyrophoric Lead, Glycerin and Permanganate Torch, Chemiluminescence, Peroxyacetone Combustion, Instant Light Crystals Chapter 20 : Oscillating Reactions - The Briggs-Rauscher Reaction, The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction, Liesegang Rings Chapter 21 : Holiday Chemistry - Lycopodium Pumpkin, Halloween Blood, Making Sparklers, Smoke Bombs, Strobe Pots, Silvered Ornament Balls, Silvered Christmas Trees, Magnesium Sulfate (Epsom Salt) Crystal Ornaments, Snowy Ballistics, Candle-Making
