Chlorine - Brake fluid Bomb

[John Sweeney]

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This is of course a classic. Take a 2-Liter Coke bottle and put a little
brake fluid in it. Then add some chlorine to it. Granular Pool chlorine
works the best (tablets take to long and are not as nice. Then put the lid
on the bottle and sqease some of the air out before you finish caping it.
(so can see the bottle inflate right before it explodes.) All of this will
take about 2-3 minuits, depending on your ratio of chlorine-brake fluid.
If a drop of ammonia is appied to the system, it will immediatly react
(and quite posible take off your hand) so use caution and find a time
delay for the ammonia, like tissue paper or something. When it finaly goes
off, asside from the huge blue-green flame it blow the 2-liter to
Valhalla. (We did this one weekend and it exploded so rapidly that we
couldn't find 50% of the bottle)

John Sweeney
Computing Services
University of North Florida

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[FSU Natl. Champs]

In article <1994Mar22.1...@sinkhole.unf.edu> jsw...@sinkhole.unf.edu (John Sweeney) writes:
>--
>This is of course a classic. Take a 2-Liter Coke bottle and put a little
>brake fluid in it. Then add some chlorine to it. Granular Pool chlorine
>works the best (tablets take to long and are not as nice. Then put the lid
>on the bottle and sqease some of the air out before you finish caping it.
>(so can see the bottle inflate right before it explodes.) All of this will
>take about 2-3 minuits, depending on your ratio of chlorine-brake fluid.
>If a drop of ammonia is appied to the system, it will immediatly react
>(and quite posible take off your hand) so use caution and find a time
>delay for the ammonia, like tissue paper or something. When it finaly goes
>off, asside from the huge blue-green flame it blow the 2-liter to
>Valhalla. (We did this one weekend and it exploded so rapidly that we
>couldn't find 50% of the bottle)
>
> John Sweeney
> Computing Services
> University of North Florida
>

This also works using concentrated hydrochloric acid and aluminum foil.
For best results, use duct tape to make sure the bottle cap remains
sealed during the reaction.

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[Jared Buntain]

In article <1994Mar22.1...@sinkhole.unf.edu>,

FSU Natl. Champs <swa...@unf6.cis.unf.edu> wrote:
>In article <1994Mar22.1...@sinkhole.unf.edu> jsw...@sinkhole.unf.edu (John Sweeney) writes:
>>--
>>This is of course a classic. Take a 2-Liter Coke bottle and put a little
>>brake fluid in it. Then add some chlorine to it. Granular Pool chlorine
>>works the best (tablets take to long and are not as nice. Then put the lid
>>on the bottle and sqease some of the air out before you finish caping it.
>>(so can see the bottle inflate right before it explodes.) All of this will
>>take about 2-3 minuits, depending on your ratio of chlorine-brake fluid.
>>If a drop of ammonia is appied to the system, it will immediatly react
>>(and quite posible take off your hand) so use caution and find a time
>>delay for the ammonia, like tissue paper or something. When it finaly goes
>>off, asside from the huge blue-green flame it blow the 2-liter to
>>Valhalla. (We did this one weekend and it exploded so rapidly that we
>>couldn't find 50% of the bottle)
>>
>> John Sweeney
>> Computing Services
>> University of North Florida
>>
>

A faster reacting mix can be made with Coke and the chlorine. Of
course this reaction is SO fast that you might not be able to get the lid on
in time. Seeing as chlorine gas is a caustic, poisonous, irritant and
defoliant gas, I recommend placing the coke or chlorine in a test tube, seal
it, drop it into the 2 liter bottle. and then break the test tube just before
throwing as far as you can.

Sounds like a really close shotgun blast.

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[Daniel Chisholm]

In article <2mssop$6...@garuda.csulb.edu> kja...@csulb.edu (Kelvin Javier) writes:
>John Sweeney (jsw...@sinkhole.unf.edu) wrote:
>: --

>: This is of course a classic. Take a 2-Liter Coke bottle and put a little
>: brake fluid in it. Then add some chlorine to it. Granular Pool chlorine

[trying to turn the conversation back to a technical angle]....

OK, I've heard of this one before. What I don't understand is how it works.
Anyone care to explain the chemistry of what's going on here? Is is just
a gas generation reaction (which bursts the bottle), or is there
combustion (or even detonation)?

- Daniel
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