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Nice experiment with self-igniting gas

woelen - 22-8-2008 at 10:41

I found some time to do a new experiment. I made some phosphine gas and bubbled this in chlorine. This is a really striking experiment and makes up for a very good demo (provided the preparation of phosphine is done beforehand):

http://woelen.homescience.net/science/chem/exps/ph3_cl2/inde...


A picture of this experiment with the self-igniting gas:





EDIT by woelen: Changed links, so that they work again.

[Edited on 12-6-12 by woelen]

Chemist514 - 22-8-2008 at 10:45

Very nice!

you may find this amusing...

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/phosphor.html

Picric-A - 22-8-2008 at 11:28

fascinating demo, nicely done! well done :)