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Brainiac Thermite Experiments

by Dave Parrack

This is a collection of experiments done by and for the UK Sky One TV programme ‘Brainiac’. It’s a great show presented by Richard Hammond (he of Top Gear and famous for that crash) and Jon Tickle from Big Brother.

These are the best of the Thermite experiments they did on the show, including putting it up against liquid nitrogen and using it to burn through a car (a French one at that).

Thermite is basically aluminum mixed with iron oxide, a simple enough mix you might think, but one which when combined produces an incredible amount of heat, as you can see from the clips above. It’s usually used for such things as welding train tracks together but obviously the bods at Brainiac had some better uses for it!

I’ll be sharing some more Brainiac clips in future so keep me bookmarked.

Copyright © 2007 Dave Parrack, All Rights Reserved

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Posted in Clip, Experiment, How?, TV, Technology on March 6th, 2007

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