Maxim Bilovitsky, a popular Russian-speaking YouTube blogger from Estonia who goes by the pseudonym Thoisoi, accidentally started a massive fire in his home laboratory while experimenting with jet fuel. About this Bilovitsky said in his last video.
The blogger talked about the fire last fall. However, he learned the reason for what happened only at the end of 2023. According to Thoisoi, the fire broke out while they were testing different types of jet fuel.
In particular, the cause of the incident was the reproduction of the combustion process of nitrogen oxide and heptyl-based fuel for liquid rocket engines. Bilowitsky added heptyl oxide to a test tube using a plastic pipette and observed the violent reaction. Due to the high activity of Heptyl, the plastic pipette melted and the substance spilled out of the test tube. The fire occurred at the location of the spilled heptyl.
“During one of the experiments, heptyl jumped into the background, but I did not attach much importance to it. But after a few seconds the paper [для фона] It spontaneously caught fire. The alcohol then accumulated in the pan along with cooled nitrogen oxide vapors. “This is where the story of the fire in my laboratory begins,” said the blogger.
According to him, at first he tried to put out the fire himself, but the room quickly filled with smoke and he had to leave. As a result, rescue teams extinguished the fire. There was no loss of life in the incident.
Thoisoi is a popular science YouTube channel about chemistry. At the time of publication, the news had more than 2 million subscribers.
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