Great homemade volcano recipe
 

Volcano fits inside a 12 inch diameter clay flowerpot, shoots lava and
volcano like flames 10 feet in the air, makes pools of white hot
lava. Works great on 4th of july.

I can share a recipe if anyone is interested.

i

Great homemade volcano recipe
 

Ignoramus9349 fired this volley in
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Volcano fits inside a 12 inch diameter clay flowerpot, shoots lava and
volcano like flames 10 feet in the air, makes pools of white hot
lava. Works great on 4th of july.

I can share a recipe if anyone is interested.

i


Always interested! Please do.

This was the first year in ten that I did not personally have to haul off
to another state to shoot two or three shows. It was really... um...
_strange_ feeling.

We actually had barbeque, and watched others shoot fireworks! (Is this
how "the other half lives"?)

LLoyd

Great homemade volcano recipe
 

On 2010-07-05, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:
Ignoramus9349 fired this volley in
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Volcano fits inside a 12 inch diameter clay flowerpot, shoots lava and
volcano like flames 10 feet in the air, makes pools of white hot
lava. Works great on 4th of july.

I can share a recipe if anyone is interested.

i


Always interested! Please do.

This is my own invention of this year.

The active ingredients are sugar and thermite. The inactive ingredient
is sand and CLAY flowerpot. Thermite is sold on eBay (though per
whatever regulations, it is sold as two powders that the user is
supposed to mix; a wise idea).

I did it the following way: I filled a small plastic drink bottle
(like a small plastic Coke bottle) with sugar.

I cut off the top of a Campbell tomato juice container (a 2 liter pop
bottle would also work). I placed the bottle with sugar inside the
larger bottle, and filled the space between the bottles with thermite.
So, thermite was surrounding the sugar bottle. Of course, none of the
bottles had any sort of caps.

Then I placed this compound device inside a CLAY flowerpot filled with
sand. (I would recommend a dry sand or at least not too wet sand, as
was my case).

I would say, make the amount of sand below the thermite, at least the
diameter of the larger bottle, or maybe a bit more. Similarly, the
flowerpot must be big enough to be 3 times the diameter of the larger
bottle, to allow for plenty of sand to surround the thermite.

I used large sparklers (two just in case) as igniters.

The result exceeded all my expectation. Burning thermite, white hot,
heated the sugar almost instantly, and a big stream of hot, expanding
sugar shot upwards. This was so hot that it immediately ignited upon
contact with air. So, it made a big fountain of fire, I would say 10
feet. The fountain was pretty vertical and contained in space, but
tall. The molten sand made lava and the "volcano" ended up as a large
hole in sand, glowing white hot.

It really looked like a volcano eruption. It lasted for, perhaps, 5-8
seconds. The white hot pool of lava inside glowed for perhaps 3
minutes.

The kids were very impressed and a girl asked me later what kind of
scientist I was.

I kept the kids appx. 30 feet away.

i

This was the first year in ten that I did not personally have to haul off
to another state to shoot two or three shows. It was really... um...
_strange_ feeling.

We actually had barbeque, and watched others shoot fireworks! (Is this
how "the other half lives"?)

LLoyd

Great homemade volcano recipe
 

Ignoramus9349 wrote:

On 2010-07-05, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:
Ignoramus9349 fired this volley in
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Volcano fits inside a 12 inch diameter clay flowerpot, shoots lava and
volcano like flames 10 feet in the air, makes pools of white hot
lava. Works great on 4th of july.

I can share a recipe if anyone is interested.

i


Always interested! Please do.

This is my own invention of this year.

The active ingredients are sugar and thermite. The inactive ingredient
is sand and CLAY flowerpot. Thermite is sold on eBay (though per
whatever regulations, it is sold as two powders that the user is
supposed to mix; a wise idea).

I did it the following way: I filled a small plastic drink bottle
(like a small plastic Coke bottle) with sugar.

I cut off the top of a Campbell tomato juice container (a 2 liter pop
bottle would also work). I placed the bottle with sugar inside the
larger bottle, and filled the space between the bottles with thermite.
So, thermite was surrounding the sugar bottle. Of course, none of the
bottles had any sort of caps.

Then I placed this compound device inside a CLAY flowerpot filled with
sand. (I would recommend a dry sand or at least not too wet sand, as
was my case).

I would say, make the amount of sand below the thermite, at least the
diameter of the larger bottle, or maybe a bit more. Similarly, the
flowerpot must be big enough to be 3 times the diameter of the larger
bottle, to allow for plenty of sand to surround the thermite.

I used large sparklers (two just in case) as igniters.

The result exceeded all my expectation. Burning thermite, white hot,
heated the sugar almost instantly, and a big stream of hot, expanding
sugar shot upwards. This was so hot that it immediately ignited upon
contact with air. So, it made a big fountain of fire, I would say 10
feet. The fountain was pretty vertical and contained in space, but
tall. The molten sand made lava and the "volcano" ended up as a large
hole in sand, glowing white hot.

It really looked like a volcano eruption. It lasted for, perhaps, 5-8
seconds. The white hot pool of lava inside glowed for perhaps 3
minutes.

The kids were very impressed and a girl asked me later what kind of
scientist I was.

I kept the kids appx. 30 feet away.

So you didn't shoot video of this???

Great homemade volcano recipe
 

"Pete C." fired this volley in news:4c317ece$0$11878
:

So you didn't shoot video of this???

In the artistic side of our business - fireworks display competitions - we
have a saying, "If there's no video, it never happened."

G
LLoyd

Great homemade volcano recipe
 

Ignoramus9349 fired this volley in
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Then I placed this compound device inside a CLAY flowerpot filled with
sand. (I would recommend a dry sand or at least not too wet sand, as
was my case).


This, at least, was pretty dangerous, Iggy. Thermites _often_ cause large
steam explosions when used on/in damp soil.

I'm glad you all were safe, but this was sort of tickling the dragon's
tail.

LLoyd

Great homemade volcano recipe
 

On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:01:29 -0500, Ignoramus9349
wrote:

On 2010-07-05, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:
Ignoramus9349 fired this volley in
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Volcano fits inside a 12 inch diameter clay flowerpot, shoots lava and
volcano like flames 10 feet in the air, makes pools of white hot
lava. Works great on 4th of july.

I can share a recipe if anyone is interested.

i


Always interested! Please do.

This is my own invention of this year.

The active ingredients are sugar and thermite. The inactive ingredient
is sand and CLAY flowerpot. Thermite is sold on eBay (though per
whatever regulations, it is sold as two powders that the user is
supposed to mix; a wise idea).

I did it the following way: I filled a small plastic drink bottle
(like a small plastic Coke bottle) with sugar.

I cut off the top of a Campbell tomato juice container (a 2 liter pop
bottle would also work). I placed the bottle with sugar inside the
larger bottle, and filled the space between the bottles with thermite.
So, thermite was surrounding the sugar bottle. Of course, none of the
bottles had any sort of caps.

Then I placed this compound device inside a CLAY flowerpot filled with
sand. (I would recommend a dry sand or at least not too wet sand, as
was my case).

I would say, make the amount of sand below the thermite, at least the
diameter of the larger bottle, or maybe a bit more. Similarly, the
flowerpot must be big enough to be 3 times the diameter of the larger
bottle, to allow for plenty of sand to surround the thermite.

I used large sparklers (two just in case) as igniters.

The result exceeded all my expectation. Burning thermite, white hot,
heated the sugar almost instantly, and a big stream of hot, expanding
sugar shot upwards. This was so hot that it immediately ignited upon
contact with air. So, it made a big fountain of fire, I would say 10
feet. The fountain was pretty vertical and contained in space, but
tall. The molten sand made lava and the "volcano" ended up as a large
hole in sand, glowing white hot.

It really looked like a volcano eruption. It lasted for, perhaps, 5-8
seconds. The white hot pool of lava inside glowed for perhaps 3
minutes.

The kids were very impressed and a girl asked me later what kind of
scientist I was.

I kept the kids appx. 30 feet away.

i

Mad, of course.


This was the first year in ten that I did not personally have to haul off
to another state to shoot two or three shows. It was really... um...
_strange_ feeling.

We actually had barbeque, and watched others shoot fireworks! (Is this
how "the other half lives"?)

LLoyd

Great homemade volcano recipe
 

On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:01:29 -0500, Ignoramus9349
wrote the following:

It really looked like a volcano eruption. It lasted for, perhaps, 5-8
seconds. The white hot pool of lava inside glowed for perhaps 3
minutes.

Cool. Too bad it lasted for only a few seconds.


The kids were very impressed and a girl asked me later what kind of
scientist I was.

I hope you told her "Mad!"


I kept the kids appx. 30 feet away.

Bueno, boss.

--
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's
sitting right here right now, with its aches and its pleasures, is
exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
-- Pema Chodron

Great homemade volcano recipe
 

On 2010-07-05, Pete C. wrote:

Ignoramus9349 wrote:

On 2010-07-05, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:
Ignoramus9349 fired this volley in
:

Volcano fits inside a 12 inch diameter clay flowerpot, shoots lava and
volcano like flames 10 feet in the air, makes pools of white hot
lava. Works great on 4th of july.

I can share a recipe if anyone is interested.

i


Always interested! Please do.

This is my own invention of this year.

The active ingredients are sugar and thermite. The inactive ingredient
is sand and CLAY flowerpot. Thermite is sold on eBay (though per
whatever regulations, it is sold as two powders that the user is
supposed to mix; a wise idea).

I did it the following way: I filled a small plastic drink bottle
(like a small plastic Coke bottle) with sugar.

I cut off the top of a Campbell tomato juice container (a 2 liter pop
bottle would also work). I placed the bottle with sugar inside the
larger bottle, and filled the space between the bottles with thermite.
So, thermite was surrounding the sugar bottle. Of course, none of the
bottles had any sort of caps.

Then I placed this compound device inside a CLAY flowerpot filled with
sand. (I would recommend a dry sand or at least not too wet sand, as
was my case).

I would say, make the amount of sand below the thermite, at least the
diameter of the larger bottle, or maybe a bit more. Similarly, the
flowerpot must be big enough to be 3 times the diameter of the larger
bottle, to allow for plenty of sand to surround the thermite.

I used large sparklers (two just in case) as igniters.

The result exceeded all my expectation. Burning thermite, white hot,
heated the sugar almost instantly, and a big stream of hot, expanding
sugar shot upwards. This was so hot that it immediately ignited upon
contact with air. So, it made a big fountain of fire, I would say 10
feet. The fountain was pretty vertical and contained in space, but
tall. The molten sand made lava and the "volcano" ended up as a large
hole in sand, glowing white hot.

It really looked like a volcano eruption. It lasted for, perhaps, 5-8
seconds. The white hot pool of lava inside glowed for perhaps 3
minutes.

The kids were very impressed and a girl asked me later what kind of
scientist I was.

I kept the kids appx. 30 feet away.

So you didn't shoot video of this???

I did not, someone did and it did not work. :-(

Great homemade volcano recipe
 

On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:38:47 -0500, Ignoramus12110
wrote the following:

On 2010-07-05, Pete C. wrote:

So you didn't shoot video of this???

I did not, someone did and it did not work. :-(

That means you'll have to do it again next week and have lots of
people video-tape it, ensuring that it gets on YouTube for us to
enjoy.
;)

--
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's
sitting right here right now, with its aches and its pleasures, is
exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
-- Pema Chodron