Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Steve Spangler's Ping-Pong Ball Blast - YouTube

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http://www.ellentv.com/videos/1-9fj6rntm/

19 comments:

Dylan said...

When the pressure of air combines with water and rubbing alcohol with no opening it becomes low pressure from high pressure when you release the air. It is really cool. It's really cool to watch the mist turn into fire because of the oxygen everywhere.

Dylan said...

This was very interesting to watch the ping pong balls explode. It's amazing that liquid nitrogen can expand the ping pong balls to explode. This was very funny and Steve Spangler is a really entertaining guy.

Weston said...

Again, good for Steve. He can make cool experiments. He just doesn't teach us anything. He shows without description. As fun as it was to watch, and cool that liquid nitrogen enclosed explodes, it doesn't teach me ANYTHING.

Ethan said...

I really liked this video because Steve Spangler is awesome. I really liked the experiment with the liquid nytrogyen and the ping pond balls. I was cool to see just a liter full of liquid nytrogyen have a whole bucket of 4000 ping pong balls explode. The other experiments were cool to but I also really liked the trick with the foot pettel.

Faith said...

You see there is things to learn but you just have to dig deep to find it. Like I learned that the reason you get that small hiss from regular water was that they put liquid nitrogen in water. And I learned that we breathe nitrogen. Also I knew the high pressure low pressure scenario with the cloud but I think that that experiment taught us all something. HOURS OF FUN AT HOME! But though it was cool and fun and made me laugh it didn't have a lot of science involved in it. But I love it!

Dylan said...

Steve Spangler doesn't teach us much but he is q really funny, smart guy.

Jahan said...

THIS WAS AWESOME!!! That was so cool how he blew and it became fire. Also, the pressure of the bottles would release all the ping pong balls like a bullet. This could really work for a weapon because we would just pour liquid nitrogen and that would release the bullet and that would work for target practice. It would not waste gunpowder or cartridges. All in all, great article and it deserves an A+

Tessa :) said...

This is a really cool yet interesting video. I would say that it is more educational than the other one that Bryan posted. No offense Bryan. Anyways my favorite part was when he filled the plastic bottle with liquid nitrogen. And then, once he poured in the ping pong balls into the barrel it exploded! That was super cool. I also say that the fire one was cool. It helped me understand why we put logs around our campfire. It's to obtain some oxygen in the area. I overall love Steve Spanglers experiments. I enjoy watching them!:)

Izzy☆☺☮✌♥✎ said...

I just love these experiments☺!!! Steve Spangler is awesome and I would love to see more experiments by him.
I think that all of the experiments were pretty cool, the first was cool at first, but once he did it again, it lost its charm. The second one was awesome. I didn't know that things wouldn't necessarily catch on fire unless there was a lot of oxygen around it! That's really cool! The fire was awesome! The third experiment though, was the best. I'm pretty sure that I knew that liquid nitrogen would expand, but then again, maybe not. It's pretty cool that so little of something, less than half a bottle of liquid nitrogen, could make 4,000 ping-pong balls shoot out of a barrel. But, ping-pong balls are really light, so that probably had something to do with it.
I was just wondering, how would they clean up 4,000 ping-pong balls? WOuld they pick them up one by one, or would kind of vacuum them...hmmm...
Overall, I think that Steve Spangler brought yet another awesome experiment to the Ellen Show. I really need to post some of these...

Alyssa said...

I love all of these videos! I didn't know that we breathe in nitrogen. It was really cool that the liquid nitrogen in the bottle was able to expand and explode to make the ping pong balls go everywhere. I think the concept was the same as the last post of the liquid nitrogen in a bottle in the watermelon. Both bottles of liquid nitrogen exploded. I also liked the high pressure low pressure experiment with the pump and the bottle and how it simulated weather we would actually have. I still don't know the science behind these experiments and I want Steve Spangler to tell us more about these experiments and the science behind them. I still thought this was a fun and entertaining video.

Rachel said...

I love watching all of these Steve Spangler videos. He is always so funny. I agree this video is more educational than the other ones. I never knew we breath Nitrogen. I think the ping-pong ball experiment was my favorite one in this video. It is amazing how a bottle of nitrogen could expand and make that big of an explosion. I remember my brother showed me a video of an explosion of ping-pong balls. I always wondered how they did it. Also, I though it was pretty cool when Ellen pumped more pressure into the bottle with water,rubbing alcohol and more pressure and it vanished. Then she released the tube and all the cloudiness and pressure came back. Overall I give this video an A+.

Ben said...

Steve Spangler is such a science wiz. he is great and this is one of his best experiments, besides the other liquid nitrogen thing. The experiment was carefully done and was very cool to watch. This liquid nitrogen thing, with the popping ping pong balls, was pretty cool, how the nitrogen expanded the balls. i wonder if it could blow up something bigger.

Ben said...

I ment that the ping pong balls went everywhere.

Annie said...

I completely agree with Faith... you are learning a lot of things, you just have to think harder... :) Like Faith said, I learned that the reason you get that sound when you open a water bottle (I usually here it when someone opens a can of coke) is because they put small little bits of liquid nitrogen into the drink. And I learned that we breathe nitrogen too! Oxygen is obvious, but nitrogen? That steamy thing?! Also, I think that it was cool how 4000 ping pong balls exploded out of a teeny barrel with only less then half of a bottle of liquid nitrogen. Like someone else said, yes the pingpong balls are light, but still that is amazing (how powerful nitrogen is :P) This was fun to watch after a long hard day, and also very scientific! Thanks Emilynne! :)

Chris the Chris of all the Chrises said...

I really, really like these experiments. We should definitely get more Spangler experiments. He is unbelievable. All of the experiments were pretty cool, but the best one was definitely the ping pong balls one. THERE WERE 4,000 PING PONG BALLS!!!!!!! I would have loved to have been in the audience and get one of them. It was amazing how the liquid nitrogen blew them up! I now know how that happens. I think that the concept of the bottle expanding is really cool and it is also a reminder to everyone that air and oxygen are not the same thing! Thank you Emilynne.

Natasha said...

That was such an amazing video!! I especially loved the part where he put the spores into the air and made it a mist and then Ellen set it on fire!!! I also loved the ping pong ball part...it is really interesting because since the pressure builds up everything explodes!! I rate this video an A-

Adam said...

This was very cool. It was so cool that how when you go from lo pressure to high pressure the bottle fogs up. It was cool when he put some of the spores on the table in a pile and nothing happened when the flame touched it, but when he sprayed it in the air and lit it, since it was surrounded in oxygen, it turned into flames. The ping pong balls coming out of the barrel was just a reaction of the bottle bursting because it was filled with liquid nitrogen.

Corey said...

I think that it was cool how all of the sudden it turned into mist. It was fun to watch the ping pong balls explode. It was interesting how they exploded. I think that it was cool how they had to push it up with air. I rate it a A-

Anonymous said...

Sophia said,

I thought this was very cool. When the bottle expanded in the nitrogen it looked like the video we saw with the exploding watermelon. I think it is cool the the fire one was a little boring. I thought that it was strange to bring fire into a flammable environment. It was cool but dangerous.