Hydraulic Press Crushes Some Explosive Items

By Muk Khatri in Science and Technology On 24th April 2016
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Back at it again with the hydraulic press, this time our favorite crusher is smashing objects that tend to explode when pressure is applied to them.

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He starts off by crushing a classic childhood toy, the pop caps are meant to go into toy guns to give them a realistic pop noise after pulling the trigger. I was quite surprised that they explode even when they get slowly pressed. The next explosive is a simple CO2 cartridge, this is probably the most dangerous thing that he has crushed so far. The possibility of shrapnel justifies the purchase of that blast shield. Lastly he crushes a simple soda bottle after dropping mentos in it, quite surprising that the coke bottle was the most explosive.

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#3 Finsihed up the video with the most famous explosive, soda and Mentos:

#4 Watch the whole explosive video below: