He had two missions for it. The first was to witness an unfettered copper oxide based thermite reaction. Some had assured him it was practically explosive. The other was to attempt refining pure ...

There probably aren’t many people out there who aren’t aware of what thermite is and how it demonstrates the power of runaway exothermic reactions ... to weld massive copper conductors ...

13 per cent aluminum and 1 per cent copper that was used for the casing of the bomb. This alloy burns with a very hot flame, but requires a high temperature for ignition. The thermite reaction was ...

Most violent reactions are explosive in character, owing to the disengagement of large volumes of heated gas. The thermite reaction has the great advantage that all substances taking part therein ...

Combine aluminum powder and a metal oxide (such as iron oxide) and you get what is known as a thermite reaction, which is very hot and very fast. Thermite’s main use is to bind train tracks.

Thermite, a 130-year-old invention ... is being unleashed in an already bloody war—and it's all because of one simple redox reaction. (1) Although magnesium, copper, iron, zinc, and aluminum will burn ...