Uncontrollable Magnesium Reaction In Dry Ice

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Music: Kevin MacLeod Halloween 2007. Has it been a year already? Well it is time for my halloween demos. Thanks to Metacafe, this years halloween show will have 250 pounds of solid CO2 (dry ice) for my chemistry demonstrations. This reaction is between metallic magnesium and carbon dioxide. Magnesium reacts with oxygen in the air to form magnesium oxide, but when the only source of oxygen is from CO2 the reaction becomes much more energetic. The products are white magnesium oxide and blck carbon.2Mg + CO2--> 2MgO + C

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Uncontrollable Magnesium Reaction In Dry Ice

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Nice show!!
By vistok 1193989609 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~6372713~~
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goodlooking
but maybe a little to much smokey.
By srento 1193955260 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~5452684~~
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Much better
Wow, I'm a new fan of your video's, In fact i just registered To comment on this one. Much better than your other magnesium and dry ice experiment, and you even balanced the equation for us.
All the best
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cool
however I was expecting a lot of more 'smoke' to apear from that dry ice
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just a quick note
wear some uv proof glasses nexttime. ive heard of science teachers getting cataracts from doing this demo too many times
By UofTchem 1195712917 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~4723638~~
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Global Warming
Thanks for the carbon
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what's the green stuff?
what are the reagents and products of the green flaming reaction?
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- rather, what are the ingrediants used to...
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- nvm
  Nevermind I finally saw in the video
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