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Making MTV Anti-Missile Flares (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“And then we’re going to add this suspension into some hexane. I mean here I’m just using Shellite because it’s from Bunnings and I dunno who else uses this so I feel like if I stop buying it Bunnings will stop selling it so, it’s like a couple of bucks and it’s like hexanes, it’s so good, Bunnings keep selling this please”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I cannot take the time to watch the video, but what does MTV have to do with infrared flares?

Pop video violence?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

MTV is the chemical make up of the flares. It's magnesium, Teflon (the oxidizer) and Viton (I haven't seen the video fully, but it might be a way to slow down the reaction)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

TIL that Music TeleVision is thermite.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium/Teflon/Viton

Thermites based on magnesium/Teflon/Viton, aka MTV-compositions, have been in use since the 1950s as payloads in infrared decoy flare applications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

!Wrong answer!<

He's remaking the flares that lit Michael Jackson on fire during that music video

For real though, glad to hear he finally submitted his PhD