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Amateur Scientist Builds Thermite Grenade Cannon (gizmodo.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the flash-powder dept.

YouTube personality Colin Furze has built a homemade cannon which he's filmed launching grenades filled with thermite, "an especially nasty chemical composition made of metal power and oxide that burns as hot as 2,500 degrees Celsius." Furze once co-hosted Sky1's program Gadget Geeks, and he's since made a new career demonstrating strange science projects on YouTube. Furze's other homemade devices have included a rocket-powered go-kart and a knife that can also toast bread while it's cutting.

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  1. Re:hi by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    American scientific inquiry by young people is limited to how to mod a vaper to volatilize hash oil.

    At least that's something that makes the world a little bit better. A "thermite grenade cannon"? Not so much.

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  2. Re:hi by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Red herring. Helium should properly be called "helion".

    As for aluminum/aluminium, I'll grant that aluminium is "correct" when we all also adopt "platinium", "lanthanium" and "molybdenium". For bonus points, we can go back and retcon iron to "ferrium", gold to "aurium", lead to "plumbium"...