Warning: This video uses corrosive acids. Wear gloves when handling them.
This video also deals with flammable liquids, open flames and matches.
Fire safety protocols must be in REALLY YOUTUBE? REALLY?
I gotta put F@#$%@!#$ warnings on matches now?
You think people are really that stupid?
I mean, sure, i agree to some extent, but come on.
Take off the warnings labels and let Darwin do his thing.
Just don't set yourselves on fire okay guys?
And if you do, well your problem not mine.
Greetings fellow nerds.
Now i'm sure you've seen matches before.
On my right i have strike anywhere matches that can be lit if struck against any rough surface like this etched metal.
Now in cases of extreme shaking or crushing these can light by themselves.
So safety matches were developed that can't be lit by friction.
This makes them extremely difficult to light accidentally.
To use them you strike them against a striker pad made of red phosphorus.
The friction causes the red phosphorus at the contact point to turn into white phosphorus
that reacts with the chemicals in the match to light it.
Now interestingly enough, YouTube channel "What Will Happen If?"
informed me that you can also light matches with concentrated sulfuric acid.
Now all you gotta do is just touch the head of the match into the sulfuric acid and wait.
Don't submerge the whole thing as too much acid will actually cool down the match before it can get hot enough to burn.
I'm using laboratory grade concentrated sulfuric acid since i found it was more reliable than drain opener acid.
And there we go. A match lit by sulfuric acid.
Now a lot of safety matches have a waterproof coating which also blocks sulfuric acid.
So if you're having trouble with your matches you can dip them in acetone for ten seconds to wash off the coating.
Do not let them stay in for longer as the acetone will react with the chemicals and stop them from working.
Let me set up a macro shot so you can see the process up close.
What's happening is that most safety matches use potassium chlorate as an oxidizer.
This reacts with sulfuric acid to form tiny amounts of chloric acid.
Now chloric acid is extremely reactive and unstable
and will spontaneously react with flammable materials like the rest of the chemicals in the match to oxidize and burn them.
So if ever you've lost the red phosphorus striker and need to light your safety matches another way.
You can use drain cleaner acid. Not really useful, but hey, it's fun.
Now i'm going to keep lighting matches with acid since I find this macro photography of the process quite fascinating.
But if you want to see the same process on the youtube channel "What Will Happen If?"
Click here or in the video description.
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Now full disclosure I am being paid to put this ad spot here and talk about their product.
But what I say is entirely up to me.
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