Slow Motion Contact Explosive – Nitrogen Triiodide

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1. A well-put-together video that I like but the guy is breathing too much iodine. It's not healthy. He should be using more respiratory protection or a fume Hood

2. I don't know the cause of the light, in addition to Thermal black body emissions, you might have tribo electric or piezo-electric discharges as the crystals get squeezed and or a braided.

   The first thing I would do is put the explosion in complete darkness and get a specter off of it. Does it follow a blackbody curve or does it have some other signature.

   It wouldn't surprise me if what you're seeing is something like the the emission Spectra of monatomic nitrogen forming diatomic nitrogen. That has to be very high energy

3. How did you put it there?

4. Kacchan

5. similar propagative habit to explosive volcanos

6. I would imagine it's something like have you seen a volcano blow up and then the gases and dust create electricity I have a feeling has something to do with that

7. How powerful is this explosion when compared to nitroglycerin? From what I've seen it looks like a rather weak explosion (when comparing both of course)

8. Brother:mom found the poop sock
   Me:*covers room with nitrogen triiodide*

9. blew the windows of my bedroom from a bottle of wet NI3 that I had been crrying around in my pocket duriing school hours. When wet it is generally inert. Luckyly I was away when it happened. NI3 is very easy to makie but I won't tell you how..

10. Question: how is nitrogen triiodide synthesised and placed on the surface, if it's so reactive? Would it explode as soon as you made it and were handling it?

11. Guess that is what those red barrels are filled with.

12. I haven't read any of the other comments yet but my guess is is the air ionizing at that microscopic point of contact.

13. Chech out the Energy levels of the spectrum on elemental iodine.
    Film the decomposition reaction though a small slit. Let the path of the emitted light pass through the slit and then through a prism.
    Does the light spectrum fall into bands, or is it a continuous spectrum?

14. I love it

15. Use that chemical for bullet

16. Just a humorous idea for you guys, if you ever have to catch a rat that’s annoying you, sprinkle some nitrogen triiodide across the surface where he likes to run across and have a great laugh! Be sure to catch it on film as well; great laughs for anyone of your friends who have dark humour like you!

17. the revenge of the 50 ft brain
    WHATTT????

18. don't touch me , Don't Touch Me , DON'T!!! TOUCH!!! ME!!!! BOOM!!!!!! I!! SAID!!! DON'T!!!! TOUCH!!!!! MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!shit!.

19. Try pouring liquid nitrogen on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgLxYUGMrmM

20. I think the flash is caused by the heating of the material for a brief moment so hot that it emits light. Like a hot piece of metal that a blacksmith hammers into a blade.

21. 0:13

    omg that is so me

22. May need several takes as the iodine vapor would block
    but set off in the dark with a spectroscope trained on it

23. Astatine is way worse.
    Let's imagine that I somehow used astatine-210 as the source, since they last the longest – about 8 hours.
    You see, Cl, Br and I don't really want to fit: they're squeezed all together.
    Imagine that it's astatine.
    There is astatide, At-, so I can imagine that there might be an NAt3.
    Astatine has an atomic number of 85, which is 12.143 times heavier than nitrogen.
    So NAt3 either,
    1) mightn't exist at all,
    or 2) might be even more explosive than NI3 would be.

24. CAVITATION!! 😀 I am not a chemist and I have no proof of this. But does sound like cavitation, as air molucules are violently pushed out of the way. Perhaps tryboluminiscence.

25. Triboluminescence is the lightening.

26. I had a teacher who told us about "something you mix with ammonia" and using it for pranks on fellow classmates in college. It was 15 years later when I learned that that "something" was iodine

27. I very much want to see a mosquito landing on it.

28. That would be cool to have in your garden for when the neighbors cat wanders into your yard!

29. Try fluorine perchlorate!

30. I don't know for sure what is going on, but any time you are breaking chemical bonds and forming new ones, the new molecules can be born with electrons in an excited state, and the electrons lose the excess energy by emitting light.

31. Unfortunately, no mosquitoes were hurt during the making of this video.

32. 1:59 Watching that in slow motion is awesome. It totally looks like it's actually a very big explosion playing at regular speed.

33. As an old chem teacher I can tell you exactly what causes the explosion……..it's magic!

34. How'd you move it then?

35. Ye ham kaeishe bana sakate hai

36. Iasame kaya lagata hai

37. I did this as a 14 years old for fun…..ha ha you mix iodine tincture with amonium then let it dry and have fun with it.We put it wet on the chalkboard for the teacher and when he tried to write…Ka-BOooOOMM

38. dark room, set up a diffraction grating and incredibly sensitive photographic film, CCD or CMOS sensor and see what wavelengths are produced, if it's due to heat, it should have a black body spectrum minus the iodine and nitrogen peaks, if it's electron excitation and emission you'll see something else.

39. Oh look me in chemical form!

40. This is the gun powder for ant war

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