[moonfire]

i want to do that to someone so bad...lol

"Lo" Loretta

[lightarrow]

A joke: mix very well equal amounts of aluminium fine powder and iodine powder (no more than a few grams); put a little piece of very cold ice on it (so that it doesn't melt immediately). When the ice starts melting, the water reacts with the mix, producing a little flame and violet fumes of iodine and aluminium triiodide. Be careful not to breath those fumes!

Al + 3I = AlI3

By the way: those equations with H2O2 and NaI are wrong. This is what happens:
(1) H2O2 + 2NaI = 2Na+ + I2 + 2OH-
(2) H2O2 = H2O + 1/2 O2
Probably, (if pH is >7) there is also the formation of some IO3-:
3I2 + 6OH- = IO3- + 5I- + 3H2O

You can easily see the iodine (I2) produced from the reaction, because the solution becomes brown.

[miles]

you will need:
a key to the nearest toilet
another key that isnt the same shape
a tub of laxitives
a victim
a cup of coffee/tea/any drink

1.shout help. the victim should go to see what the noise is whilst thier gone puor the tub of laxitives into the victims drink then run the other way note:the victim once drunk his drink will feel the need to desperatly go to the toilet they will grab the wrong key and will struggle to open the bathroom door they will poo their pants a lot this is very funny

[lightarrow]

another little joke with things quite easy to find: Zinc powder and sulfur powder.
Mix well ~ equal parts in volume of the two, then ignite the mix with a hot flame, like the one of a pen flame. It burns with a yellow-green flame, producing a lot of white fumes.

To ignite the mixture you could also use KNO3/Sugar about 50/50 in weight, very well mixed (the sugar must be ground to fine powder; all powders must be dry).

[weed4me]

i know this isnt really a chemically related prank but nevertheless i have always found it funny to wait until a christmas that snows properly (we dont have many in the UK) and get a friend to build u inside a snowman on someones porch. not only does it scare the **** out of them that a snowmans on their porch but when u jump out yellin something it usually sets of the chemical reaction in their panties. oh yeah make sure u get ur friend to knock. hypothermias a bitch.

"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is."

[lightarrow]

Another little joke with (quite) simple substances:

Put some copper nitrate (Cu(NO3)2) in a piece of aluminum foil (better if more layers), with some table salt (NaCl) and a bit of water.
Wrap the foil immediately and go away of it.

It will produce reddish-brown fumes (NO2) and hot-liquid squirts.
Be careful!
Don't breath those fumes!

[i am bored]

this is super funny...well so Ive heard

what you need is

a bathroom with a metal doorhandle
some uninsulated wire
a car battery
and some electric tape


OK open the door so you so u don't have 2 touch the handle
on the inside of the bathroom take out your car battery
and tape a length of wire to the negate and positive poles on the battery
take the positive wire and the negative wire and tape them to the door knob one wire at each end
close the door
and in THEORY it will shock the living daylights out of someone. depending on the battery... a car battery will be the best...Ive never done this so i don't know if it will work

whats its supposed to do is complete the circut charging the door knob. and turning it into the joybuzzer on steroids. either it will shock you or the battery will blow up and may blow off the door. either way it should be a blast

[Bored chemist]

That won't work. You just short circuit the battery through the door handle. The most likely outcome is that you will burn out the wires.

[i am bored]

darn....well then is there any way i can make a door handle shock someone without shorting the battery and frying the wires

[Carolyn]

darn....well then is there any way i can make a door handle shock someone without shorting the battery and frying the wires

Surely it's your father and NOT your wonderful, loving mother you want to shock!

[i am bored]

neither of you

[Professor Gaarder]

oh, gawd.

the reason you would short the car battery is because you're trying to pass too powerful of a current through too weak of a wire.

also, it would be dangerous to try, you could possibly hurt the person terribly and as they said earlier, practical jokes are meant to be . . . anything but mean. if the victim isn't laughing after the prank, it wasn't a good idea . . .

just use a smaller battery, that would be easier to conceal.

[i am bored]

like what. a AAA could be too small to really notice and AA would more than likely have the same effect as static electricity I'm assuming the largest i can go without frying the wires is a D size. plus it would be kinda suspicious if you walk into a school bathroom with a backpack... and i can carry a D size battery, around 3 feet of wire and a roll of electric tape on my person and nobody not even know its there

[Carolyn]

like what. a AAA could be too small to really notice and AA would more than likely have the same effect as static electricity I'm assuming the largest i can go without frying the wires is a D size. plus it would be kinda suspicious if you walk into a school bathroom with a backpack... and i can carry a D size battery, around 3 feet of wire and a roll of electric tape on my person and nobody not even know its there

 [!]BEHAVE!

[i am bored]

i can't do it in the new school....they will have cameras in every corner of the halls, they will know if i pulled off something like this.

[Professor Gaarder]

well, I don't want to give you any bad ideas ;b but if you want it to succeed, get a lithium AA. More energy, same size. It's worth the money.

[i am bored]

sounds good

[Bored chemist]

If you really want to do this then the first thing you need to do is learn some of the basic science of electric circuits.

[i am bored]

ok....and im assuming if i can do this with an doorknob i can also do it to an ....locker door....or a metal rod...kinda like a cattle prod

[Professor Gaarder]

well, to complete your objective, yes, you would need knowledge of electrical science. however, if you just want to see something happen, watching a wire short could be just as surprising to the victim.