Playing with Nitrocellulose

Here I demonstrate the ignition of nitrocellulose. Nitrocellulose is some fun stuff, pretty easy to make too. I used sulfuric acid drain opener and potassium nitrate as the nitrating solution, although using real nitric acid would yield better results. There are a bunch of good videos on YouTube on making this stuff, so I won't be making a how-to video for guncotton.

Here is a how to on making nitrocellulose, skip down on the page to the hexanitrate:
http://www.powerlabs.org/chemlabs/nitrocellulose.htm

Thanks to ChemXu for giving me the idea to make this stuff, check out his chemistry/pyro videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChemXu