in this reaction we'll see a little bit
of a combustability here we're gonna
use ammonium nitrate
as our oxidizer we have to have for
every flame you have to have an oxidizer
in the air it's just oxygen
itself so for this we're going to use
ammonium nitrate it used to be sold as
still sold as a fertilizer but it does
have explosive properties that have been
used by well let's say people who want
to blow things up and hurt other people
our fuel is going to be some zinc dust
it sounds odd that a metal would be fuel
but yes metals can burn too
and then to make the reaction go just a
bit faster we are going to add a catalyst of
ammonium chloride
but no reactions yet well because things
aren't mixing even though I'm mixing
them dry they'll mix much better and
ions will be able to hit each other much
better if I give a little squirt of water
once the water got the ions and atoms
hitting each other a reaction occurred
as you saw
