http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=1131

I need some of that on the back of my boat to help me beat the guys in my club to my spots.  ;D

I saw that a few years ago. I heard thats only the red ones that do that.

It isn't a matter of the color, just the reaction of the sugar and the potassium chlorate.

O the fun of chemistry class. All the demonstrations and experiments. Last year they taught us the proper way to distil stuff.

I remembe my crazy high school Chem teacher doing that. The guy was nuts, first day of class he lit his paints on fire. I remember the gummy bear trick smelling horrible too.

Anyone ever see the "Grain Elevator" explosion trick?

Hey Tin which one is that? All of my sciences teachers liked blowing stuff up and 2 even had degrees in combustion.

Its a trick with a long piece of PVC pipe, grains grinded to a fine dust, and someone flips a light switch. It makes a big explosion with in the pipe. There has to be something else though, I can't remember what.

Never saw that but I like when the throw stuff like pure sodium and potassium into water and explodes or runs on the top of the water but on fire. Pretty cool and there are videos of it on youtube.

I knew there was something about them Gummy Bears. ;D

I use to hear of grain bins being blowen up all the time living in Iowa. From what I know corn dust is like black powder. As soon as it gets a spark its going to blow up. I have heard cleaning them out after a year is the most dangerest job.

"Kelp, it's human nature! Kelp, parents just don't like teachers blowing up their kids!"  Del Moore (Dr. H.R. Warfield) to Jerry Lewis (Chemistry Professor Julius Kelp) in the original 1963 "The Nutty Professor" movie.

No more Gummy Bears for me......