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Thermite

Procedure

1. Mix 50-55g ferric oxide powder with 15g Al powder.

2. Get 2 red clay flower pots, one inside the other. Put a piece of filter paper at the bottom of the pot, pour thermite mix into the pot.

3. Put the pots on a ring stand behind a safety shield. Also have a large sand bath placed below the pots in order to catch the liquid metal when it drops through the pots.

4. Insert Mg fuse, light fuse with a butane lighter, step back and watch the show.

5. If the Mg fuse is a dud, light the thermite mix with the propane hand torch.

Reactions

dH = -849 kJ/mole