NedsHead
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Nitrogen Triiodide in The Movies
There's a bit of a Crocodile Dundee thing happening down here at the moment and while channel surfing I came across a scene in the film Crocodile
Dundee 2 where our hero shoots out the radiator and tyres of a Toyota Landcruiser in a puff of faint purple vapour,
https://youtu.be/jPdMdQAAQ50?t=1h10m46s
I suspect it's Nitrogen Triiodide followed by a smoke composition under the bonnet? (hood to you Americans)
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Sulaiman
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the video is blocked for me, but based on memories of my youth,
I would be surprised if NI3 is used for special effects as it is only safe to handle when wet
when completly dry, the breeze fom the hair on a testicle of a passing fly can set it off,
not easy to have just the right moisture content to allow handling and detonation.
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NedsHead
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That's what I was thinking, it's too unstable. The scene takes place out in the desert so maybe the technician set it up the day before and the
Nitrogen Triiodide was allowed to dry out over night, or it's something else with a purple vapour?
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macckone
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Permanganate based items also show purple.
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JJay
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I can't see that video either.... Fulminating gold is said to give off purple vapor. I tend to think that it was more likely something permanganate
based, though.
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I vaguely remember a movie in the mid-80s, where a high school student makes a nuclear bomb to draw attention to the fact that they are refining
weapons-grade plutonium in a residential area. It started with the student using NI3 to play a prank on the class jerk.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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Scalebar
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Iodate & periodate based flash compositions will make a purple cloud of vapour, I've seen a couple things on good old wikipedia suggesting there's
pressure to move over to such compositions as less toxic than the chlorate mixtures.
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