The Exploding Jelly Baby
Created | Updated Feb 10, 2003
Usually seen as a normal bit of confectionary, the humble Jelly Baby can be turned from the nicest sweet in existence, to a weapon of mass destruction......well, nearly.
WARNING!!!!!!! DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. IF YOU MUST SEE IT FOR YOURSELVES THEN DO IT UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING, AND IN A LAB. DON'T SAY I DIDN'T GIVE YOU FAIR WARNING!
The Jelly Baby contains such substances as sugar, gelatin and colouring, all of which contain Carbon and Hydrogen. When added to compunds such as Potassium Chlorate (or any other oxidising agent for that matter) they can't help it but react. The carbon and hydrogen combine with oxygen in a highly exothermic reaction, and the Jelly Baby gets rather warm and "BOOM!", (well not really but you get my point), and the poor little sweet explodes.
WARNING!!!!!!! DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. IF YOU MUST SEE IT FOR YOURSELVES THEN DO IT UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING, AND IN A LAB. DON'T SAY I DIDN'T GIVE YOU FAIR WARNING!
The Jelly Baby contains such substances as sugar, gelatin and colouring, all of which contain Carbon and Hydrogen. When added to compunds such as Potassium Chlorate (or any other oxidising agent for that matter) they can't help it but react. The carbon and hydrogen combine with oxygen in a highly exothermic reaction, and the Jelly Baby gets rather warm and "BOOM!", (well not really but you get my point), and the poor little sweet explodes.
