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Title: OT: Is there nothing oreos can't do?
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on May 17, 2006, 04:50:43 PM

Just another one in a long line of kitchen science miracles:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/600152d7d441b010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

The Oreo Cookie rocket fuel.
-Ed

Title: Re: OT: Is there nothing oreos can't do?
Post by: daveblackeye15 on May 17, 2006, 06:52:47 PM

MOST IMPRESSIVE!

Title: Re: OT: Is there nothing oreos can't do?
Post by: ulthar on May 17, 2006, 07:36:48 PM

Disclaimer: Don't try this at home; I've been a chemist, doing demo's like this, for 20 years.

We can go one step further with sugar-oxidizer fuels. A demonstration I've done many times based on the sugar-chlorate mixture (not perchlorate, as used in this fuel) is hypogolic with sulfuric acid. This means they combust (or even explode) upon contact.

I once gave a talk on Forensic Chemistry; before I started the talk, I set this up with the sulfuric acid in a capsule that would take about 30 minutes to dissolve. About five seconds after I put the slide up on arson investigations, the sulfuric got through the capsule, the reaction started, and I had flames shooting about 6 ft off the desk.

Beautiful.

Title: Re: OT: Is there nothing oreos can't do?
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on May 18, 2006, 02:02:46 PM

I'm all for practical demonstrations. In bioloy the demonstration options are much les impressive.
-Ed

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