A ring stand is set up with two rings, each holding a filter paper spread with nitrogen triiodide. The bottom filter paper is touched with a feather, causing an explosion that detonates the other sample of nitrogen triiodide. Close up views and slow motion of this very dangerous reaction are shown.
CCA! volumes are organized according to topics in chemistry. Some movies are included on more than one volume of CCA! because they can be used to demonstrate more than one topic or idea.
Viewing Chemistry Comes Alive! Video
Chemistry Comes Alive! uses QuickTime and requires QuickTime version 5 or later and the QuickTime plug-in in order to view the video.
You can download the latest version of QuickTime from the Apple Computer, Inc. WWW site.