How to make your Halloween decoration more explosive [video]

Every time October comes, people come up with fun and scary ways to decorate their homes for Halloween. Wildly, the most sought after prop is the pumpkin, which always gets funny designs and creative accessories.

However, The Royal Institution channel people have taken Halloween decor to the next level. Through a combination of iron oxide, aluminum dust and magnesium wire, they created an explosive Halloween pumpkin. Check out the video experiment at the top of the page.

Creating a chemical reaction as high as 2, 000 degrees Celsius, the spooky decoration creates a festival of pyrotechnic flames. To make it even better, when the flames come into contact with the nitrocellulose squash underneath, the result is an insane fireball.

Last year the guys at The Royal Institution created another innovative decoration for this commemorative date. It is a pumpkin head capable of levitating. Check out the result in the video below:

The pumpkin is able to levitate thanks to a magnetic field created using a particularity of certain materials called superconductivity.

The material is superconducting when it allows the electrons of an electric current to pass through it without any resistance. Ceramic materials with these characteristics can be created as long as they are cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero (-273º Celsius). The magnetic field created by this current is strong enough to repel matter.

So, are you ready to celebrate Halloween? Decorated your home with themed decorations? Did you invent something new? Leave your comment in the space below.

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