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Posted: **Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:51 pm**

Watch these things go really really far at night and wait for a report.

And a visual burst of color.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:13 am**

That is pretty cool. Looks like a lot of work, but I bet it would make a really cool splat.

Have you actually done it?

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:17 am**

Yeah but real small scale. just like a small otmato like half of the one in vid. I know it glows for a loong time so you could potentially mix a gallon at a time.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:42 am**

My question is: if you got that stuff on clothing, would it wash off?

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:53 am**

Where would you get Hydrogen Peroxide? just asking.

this is awesome!!!! It would be awesome to shoot from a gun.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:00 am**

Hydrogen Peroxide is (or was at least) used for bleaching hair, and many other things.
It can be purchased at some supermarkets and at all chemists.
The strength might vary though, however it is possible to make it stronger (remove water from it).

Edit: Redcoat, i tried to access your website but nothing happenend, ideas?

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:34 am**

Novacastrian wrote:Hydrogen Peroxide is (or was at least) used for bleaching hair, and many other things.

Hence the expression "peroxide blonde"

It's usually at about 6% strength from the chemist, I have 20% in the lab

and I'm trying to figure out which phosphorus compound I can use...

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:39 am**

JSR, can you elaborate at all as to what would be the easiest way to remove the water from the solution?

Would simple evaporation work?

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:56 am**

IIRC it boils at around 150ºC so it would be possible to evaporate the water, but personally I wouldn't be comfortable boining something that is a component of rocket fuel

edit: wiki seems to agree

Many amateurs try distillation, but this is extremely dangerous with hydrogen peroxide; peroxide vapor can ignite or detonate depending on specific combinations of temperature and pressure. In general any boiling mass of high concentration hydrogen peroxide at ambient pressure will produce vapor phase hydrogen peroxide which can detonate. This hazard is mitigated, but not entirely eliminated with vacuum distillation. Other approaches for concentrating hydrogen peroxide are sparging and fractional crystallization.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:58 am**

Novacastrian wrote: Edit: Redcoat, i tried to access your website but nothing happenend, ideas?

this has happpend to me as well, Freewebs keeps playing up on me and It doesn't work for me as well. My advice is to try again later, though my website is still very much in development.

Ha- 666 posts

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Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:16 am**

The peroxide I can buy from Woolworthes is 3%I'll get a picture up so you know what to look for.

I can't seem to find it now I'll probably go out to the shed tomorrow and find it sitting on the edge of a table over an open tin of acetone and sulphuric acid solution.

The bottle is small about the size of a Tooheys New or Bundy Throw down size bottle it is yellow/brown bottle with a yellow/brown label saying Peroxide,it's found in the medication section of Woolworthes along with lye,glycerin etc.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:32 am**

From woollies? You serious? Now all I need is a non-safety match, or will normal matches work?

Thanks,

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:38 am**

that was rad! Now to raid the house for products

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:59 am**

This is AWESOME

I wanna do this

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:07 am**

As a chemistry student I can say that this is dangerous and could go very wrong...

-goose_man

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This puts glowsticks to shame

This puts glowsticks to shame