Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Burning Mercury Thiocyanide

Have you ever seen a piece of mercury thiocyanide burning? Take a look at this video and be amazed. Do not try this at home because it produces poisonous mercury vapors.



(via UniqueDaily)

7 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

Good thing they didn't put it in the microwave, or else a demon would have climbed out and exploded!!

John Sadowski said...

Mercury and cyanide, what could go wrong?

Anonymous said...

A similar thing is available in India during diwali.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ETQg75Wik

Great fun as kids

Unknown said...

Is that the same as the things we call "Snakes" that are sold with the fireworks around the 4th of July?

Anonymous said...

mercury and cyanide what could psossibly go wrong...checkout the msds sheet link http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/m1560.htm I think if that guys wife gets into a custody battle with him hes screwed.

Anonymous said...

Haha, Mercury in a Mars rock. Isn't that kind of ironic?

Anonymous said...

Hi all. How are you?