Slow Motion Contact Explosive - Nitrogen Triiodide
Nitrogen triiodide is a highly unstable substance that detonates when disturbed. So we disturbed it. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Can you help us translate...
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It's always good to start video off with a bang and there could hardly be an easier way of doing that than with this stuff. What we have here is a contact explosive called nitrogen triiodide. It's a highly unstable substance that detonates when disturbed. Now you might have heard of nitroglycerine which is another kind of contact explosive which goes off when you hit it with a hammer. but this stuff is in a league of its own. Even something like a mosquito landing on it will set it off. Now the reason this compound is so unstable is all to down to how it's put together. It's nitogren triiodide so we have a nitrogen atom - this is a trivalent atom. That means it likes to form three bonds with other atoms. So when we bring it together with iodi...
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It's always good to start video off with a bang and there could hardly be an easier way of doing that than with this stuff. What we have here is a contact explosive called nitrogen triiodide. It's a highly unstable substance that detonates when disturbed. Now you might have heard of nitroglycerine which is another kind of contact explosive which goes off when you hit it with a hammer. but this stuff is in a league of its own. Even something like a mosquito landing on it will set it off. Now the reason this compound is so unstable is all to down to how it's put together. It's nitogren triiodide so we have a nitrogen atom - this is a trivalent atom. That means it likes to form three bonds with other atoms. So when we bring it together with iodi...
