How to Make a ROCKET ENGINE From Table SALT?

Great way to illustrate how much energy is in a Snickers bar.

3:49 - You missed a trick - you could have used a Mars Bar!

For increasing the pressure, it could help to shape the interior face of the propellant with a form that maximizes the surface area for combustion. I've seen on some old book that different shapes, like cross, star, etc, give different acceleration profiles over just a cylindrical shape

Y'all laughing about salt rockets made by a man with Russian accent 😂 but I live 2 km away from Russian border 🥶

well done juggling the two, exclusive terms "rocket motor" and "rocket engine" without ever conflating them.

In my nerdy wayward youth as an aspiring bomb nut I used to love those Solidox pellets you used to be able to buy for use in those Sears Solidox welders back in the 70's and 80's. They were mostly sodium chlorate. I'd crush them up, sift out those wonderful asbestos fibers that were embedded in them for some reason, dissolve it in distilled water, filter the solution with coffee filters then let the water slowly evaporate so the sodium chlorate would grow crystals rather than just precipitating out furthering the purification. I could then grind those crystals into a fine powder and experiment. I found if dissolved in water again, soaked into patches of denim, let dry and hit with a hammer you'd get a gnarly boom. Mixing it with aluminum dust and some antimony sulfide you'd get a good flash powder for making M-80 equivalents but it was stupidly drop, static and friction sensitive so I abandoned that option quick. I later learned to process it into potassium chlorate by reacting it with potassium chloride dietary salt to make a more stable oxidizer for salutes. Yeah sodium chlorate and sugar is a bad combo. I tried my hand at making a pipe bomb with that stuff and it started off just fizzling then as it burned out the hole in the end cap for the fuse it started roaring and took off like a rocket for a bit of distance then blew up like a grenade. Nothing is as fun as getting chased by your own pipe bomb.

Small correction: Make sure you use distilled water with this process. If you use any other water, tap water or bottled water you will have to remove the minerals after the synthesis process.

Don't breathe in the fumes trough! Burning silicone sealant as fuel leaves extremely fine silicon oxide powder, exposure can cause a serious lung condition called silicosis.

Cool, I really appreciate your work with this channel. Big respect

As someone who dabbled extensively with pyrotechnics long ago, I was nodding along since everything was quite familiar until you used silicone sealant as a fuel. I almost fell off my chair. That is *so cool*! It seems like a decent fuel but with the added benefit of having a built-in binder/stabilizer. Looks so easy to work with, and gives such a super smooth burn. So stable, in fact, that it makes the otherwise hazardous chlorate viable for something other than explosive charges! Would have loved to hear what it sounds and smells like as you launch the rocket (I often get nostalgic when I smell burnt black powder).

This video came at the right time, I was looking for ways to send my DIY communications satellite into stratosphere while stranded in a Mars basin.

We totally need to see a collab between Thoisol and Explosions&Fire/Extractions&Ire the two of them together would be absolutely hilarious.

All respect and admiration for the great efforts and patience to make this video!! Also, we should not forget the times of testing, analysing, and repeating the experiments.. It's good and great job you have there, my friend.. Bless you 🌹

Genuinely cool video. Very impressed with the quality of the second motor.

Love the way we went from table salt to titanium to platinum

I didn't know that you could use silicone sealant as fuel. Great video.

How well do these store? Sodium chlorate is extremely hygroscopic, to the point of having no practical use in fireworks. However, your mixing with silicon adhesive looks like it might offer some level of waterproofing.

Great video, love your channel! But...the propellent you made at the end clearly wasn't made from sodium chlorate. Sodium chlorate would've caused the flame to be extraordinarily yellow, but your flame was more of a whitish-purple, indicative of potassium chlorate. My best guess: the sodium chlorate you made was too impure and didn't work as well (or the quantity was too small), so you subbed it with the potassium chlorate, which is more common. Still, love the content, keep it coming man!

Thank you so much for your incredible good Videos, they are a lot of fun to wach and of great quality. By far the best chemistry channel on YT... I have a Phd degree in science myself and still learned a lot watching your videos. Even knowing many reactions, the way you filmed them is so much better than reading about them. And to top it of you have this great Borat-like accent that adds to the high amount of entertainment you offer. Please keep up the good work!!!

Congratulations on your comprehensive study. It was a quite good job!