Just 21 explosively mind-blowing chemical reactions for your entertainment

Twitter account @HoldMyBeaker shares the best ever chemical reactions. Explosions! Acid! Green fire! If only chemistry lessons at school had been this fun / dangerous. Don’t try any of these at home, or you may find that you no longer have one.

1.

Blood + magnesium fluoride = black magic pic.twitter.com/e8yehBZFHi

— Chemical Reactions (@HoIdMyBeaker) March 22, 2019

2.

Making artificial snow pic.twitter.com/4qZdx0DgnG

— Chemical Reactions (@HoIdMyBeaker) March 1, 2019

3.

Metal Spoon eaten by very strong acid pic.twitter.com/envoFK5pdj

— Chemical Reactions (@HoIdMyBeaker) January 26, 2019

4.

Reversibility of fluid motion in glycerine pic.twitter.com/gRpGCsfl5J

— Chemical Reactions (@HoIdMyBeaker) December 22, 2018

5.

Pr6O11 + CaCO3 + NiO + Glycine + HNO3 = ? pic.twitter.com/KTGiAyaFjF

— Chemical Reactions (@HoIdMyBeaker) November 13, 2018

6.

Powdered sugar is highly flammable, so take care when you make a birthday cake pic.twitter.com/3cFbEqgPcs

— Chemical Reactions (@HoIdMyBeaker) November 2, 2018

7.

Wildfire – Trimethyl Borate pic.twitter.com/5wFSXMCQo6

— Chemical Reactions (@HoIdMyBeaker) October 27, 2018

8.

Baking soda and vinegar clean out a drain pic.twitter.com/qV4LoMl1Mx

— Chemical Reactions (@HoIdMyBeaker) October 23, 2018

9.

Sodium + Dead Cuttlefish pic.twitter.com/JBRSFQsTCI

— Chemical Reactions (@HoIdMyBeaker) October 18, 2018

10.

Dielectric breakdown – or how electricity finds the "path of least resistance": a strong enough voltage can strip electrons from atoms, turning a normally insulating gas into a conductor pic.twitter.com/WsHgzIXrBK

— Chemical Reactions (@HoIdMyBeaker) October 15, 2018