Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this video I use a very big scale exotic thermite reaction to turn average dirt into the tremendously useful and technologically important elemental silicon while greatly contributing to global warming and stink-bombing my whole neighborhood.

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0:00 Intro
4:05 Collecting and purifying some dirt
10:41 Preparing for the thermite reaction
14:05 Turning my grill into a volcano
17:18 Extracting and purifying silicon from the stinky slab
22:17 Outro

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