The Home Scientist

Titanium metal from a thermite reaction has been one of my goals for a long time. I needed it for my element collection, and this thermite i...

Here's a quick one. This thermite was a 2.02:1 mix of V2O5:Al powder. Vanadium pentoxide is a (fairly toxic) orange powder, and it made ...

Another thermite composition - 4.19:1 SnO2:Al by weight, with about 25g total thermite. I already had tin samples for my collection, but eve...

This old post serves as the Video Companion to   this video . This reaction was done some time before the video was shot, so some conditions...

Thermite is most commonly made with red iron oxide (hematite, or common rust), but I went with black iron oxide (magnetite) because it shoul...

This old post serves as the Video Companion to   this video . For this experiment, I used manganese dioxide and a much finer aluminum powde...

One of the first experiments I did at my home lab, and the type I've done most often, is the thermite reaction. This is the exothermic r...