What can you mix with water to explode?

For decades, science enthusiasts have delighted at the famously energetic way sodium and potassium explode on contact with water.

Is it possible to make water explode?

Theoretically, this is possible, but it would be an extremely dangerous process, too. To create water, oxygen and hydrogen atoms must be present. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms’ electrons’ orbits have been conjoined. But we also have an explosion and — if our experiment was big enough, a deadly one.

How do you make a exploding bag?

Put 3 teaspoons of baking soda in the tissue, then fold it up. Zip the sandwich bag shut but leave a corner open, enough to fit the tissue full of baking soda in. Slip the tissue in, quickly seal the bag and step back. Watch the bag slowly expand and explode!

What reacts violently with water?

The alkali metals (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, and Fr) are the most reactive metals in the periodic table – they all react vigorously or even explosively with cold water, resulting in the displacement of hydrogen. The Group 1 metals or alkali metals become more reactive in higher periods of the periodic table.

How do you make TNT?

❖ TNT is a yellow, odorless solid that does not occur naturally in the environment. It is made by combining toluene with a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acids (ATSDR 1995). ❖ It is a highly explosive, single-ring nitroaromatic compound that is a crystalline solid at room temperature (CRREL 2006).

How do you make a homemade explosion for kids?

Baking Soda and Lemon Juice Tray Let your child squirt lemon juice drops onto the baking soda. The bottled kind of lemon juice works well for this. The citric acid of the lemon juice will react with the baking soda creating carbon dioxide. The soap will trap the gas causing more fizz!

How do you make foam explode?

Here’s How: Carefully pour the hydrogen peroxide into the plastic soda bottle. Add 10 drops of food coloring to the plastic soda bottle. Add 1 T. of dish soap to the plastic soda bottle, and swirl the bottle around to mix everything up.

How do you make exploding foam?

How do you make an explosion without baking soda?

Homemade Volcano Alternative to Baking Soda & Vinegar

1. Elephant Toothpaste. Elephant toothpaste is named so because the resulting eruption looks like an elephant’s trunk squeezing out toothpaste.
2. Mentos. Mentos candies combined with diet cola will result in a powerful explosion.
3. Ketchup.
4. Salt.