Burning Bubbles

This project allows you to create soap bubbles that are filled with flamable gas. You can then transfer the bubbles to any surface you wish and light them on fire. The bubbles burn very quickly, creating an impressive fire ball but generally not igniting the surface they are placed on.

53 Comments:

1. Dec 8, 2006 | 12:01 am

   sngx1275 wrote:

   You can also modify the lighter by taking the metal off and lifting the flame height adjuster off of the gear it turns. Facing the front of the lighter (where the flame is) turn the gear to the right, then lift off to go back to the left, then place back on the gear. Repeat as necessary. That speeds up the escape of gas from the lighter.

2. Feb 1, 2007 | 7:48 am

   gambit wrote:

   you can even make them fly: just buy a bubble gun (now in a toystore near you:) and use the gas near the fann,ignite and if they’re close enough together you’ll get a massive flame

3. Feb 2, 2007 | 3:03 am

   harchim wrote:

   nice idea gambit, I’ll have to try that out

4. Feb 15, 2007 | 4:59 am

   mr pyromaniac wrote:

   i’ll have to try this out sometime soon! umm…would a deodorant spray or aerosol produce flammable bubbles? because they are generally flammable :D

5. Feb 15, 2007 | 10:06 am

   KOOKOO wrote:

   bubble thing worked AWSOME, I got 3 SUPER bubble guns (swear to god) my two friends and I worked up a 30 seconds worth of BUBBLES and “caught” them in a huge soft-plastic “tarp” then we lit on fire (nothing on ground, took 5 minutes b4 hand to clear it) and FOOM!!!

   was SWEET!

   (it kinda exploded too, like BURST of flame, then like burning…)

   DONT try it at home! (like I did…)

6. Feb 23, 2007 | 3:57 am

   Juli wrote:

   I have tryed and it worked nice!

7. Feb 23, 2007 | 9:43 pm

   Anonymous wrote:

   yeah it was pretty cool

8. Mar 14, 2007 | 9:40 pm

   Anonymous wrote:

   might i sudjest takeing 1 of those long grill lighters and carefully takeing off the metal part but leave the bendable tube and use it 2 make the bubbles so that u never have 2 put your hand in the soapy mixture

9. Mar 25, 2007 | 8:59 am

   awesome site wrote:

   You will need a long grill lighter, because the bubbles also consist of soapy mixture and they come pretty high…

10. Mar 27, 2007 | 8:55 am

    Anonymous wrote:

    Could you combine this with the electrolysis idea?

11. Mar 31, 2007 | 7:30 pm

    ginger wrote:

    we did this at school it awsome. also if you get the mixte right you can een hold the bubble in your hands and they burn so fast you dont get burnt ^^ but dont try that. nice vid

12. Apr 3, 2007 | 2:42 pm

    Dangerous wrote:

    Have you tried dumping some calcium carbide chunks in the soapy water? I think that you would get more bang to the bubble.

    I did not say this, I was not here.

13. Apr 15, 2007 | 1:27 pm

    pyromaniac wrote:

    you can make a fire rope/mace/flail thangy. make a big knot at the end of a rope (long enough to where th knot’s not close to you, short enough to where it’s not taller than you. maybe a bit longer than your arm, with the knot a bit bigger than your fist. put some germ-X (or other thing that’s falmmable and will absorb) all over the knot, and water just above the knot on the rope. set it on fire, and swing away.

14. Apr 25, 2007 | 3:06 am

    chemist wrote:

    If you really want fun bubbles you might try the following, but I wouldn’t recommend it :-)

    take jam jar outside in a safe area in bright sunlight - it wont work indoors. Add one half teaspoon of potassium chlorate into the jar (this is nasty dangerous stuff - be carfeul !). Take a piece of thin paper and stuff this into the jar to form a well. This is your ‘fuse’

    Now pour in a quantity of concentrated suplphuric acid (this is unbeleivably dangerous stuff - dont go near it unless you know what you are doing!).

    Retire quickly to a safe distance at least 6 ft. Wait.

    After a while the paper will burn through due to the acids oxidising properties. When the acid reaches the cholrate it is oxidised into perchloric acid and chlorine dioxide. Chlorine dioxide is an orange gass that is unstable and explosively decomposes on exposure to ultraviolet light.

    So the result is small orange puffs of chlorine dioxide that rise a little and then go ‘pop’. Very nice. DONT even think about doing this in large quantities and be careful to heavily dilute and then neutralise the by products with a weak alkali.

    In fact his is definately in the Dont do it catagory!

    Cl2O2

15. Apr 25, 2007 | 8:47 pm

    Ardamaeus wrote:

    Another dangerous tip is the can flamethrower, place your lighter in front of it and spray the flammable liquid onto the open flame, bear in mind: there could be some fire sucked back in to the can and cause a violent explosion…but it has never happenned to be…use small bursts

    Adding a balloon with some flammable gas liquid or other on top of the bubbles is also good fun

16. Apr 27, 2007 | 7:30 pm

    Zack Redstar (Z Red) wrote:

    I did a similar thing like this at school but the fun thing to do is if u wet ur hand you can pick up the bubbles and then get someone else to light them and u get flames shooting from ur hands with no burning (just dont point ur hands towards ur face i’ve lost hair because of that)

17. May 4, 2007 | 6:07 pm

    Teagan wrote:

    DON’T DO THIS AT HOME

    you can take a regular 5 gallon bucket and put a hose connected to a tank of methane. Inside the bucket put half a gallon of water and a whole bottle of dish soap. turn the methane tank on and let the bubbles grow.Because of the methane the bubbles will stay in a bubble column and I have gotten it to about 15 feet of floating bubbles. But be careful when you light it because it goes up pretty fast.

18. May 12, 2007 | 8:53 am

    warren wrote:

    it also works mith hair spray or deoderent

19. May 18, 2007 | 4:11 pm

    Andrew wrote:

    My physics teacher in 8th grade did this with a rubber hose and those natural gas spigots. When he lit it it made a fire ball/disc about 4ft wide.

20. May 25, 2007 | 8:15 pm

    Miles Tails Prower wrote:

    Woah! I just tried it! It was like a mini explosion.

21. Jun 11, 2007 | 6:56 am

    Scarface wrote:

    How do you take the metal thingy off from the cheap lighters.How do you modify it?

22. Jun 14, 2007 | 11:57 am

    narn wrote:

    It would seem that a blow torch (the manual type with a propane cylinder) would be an easy way to make the bubbles. Just stick the nozzle in the mixture turn on the gas and away you go. Much greater volume that a lighter and in the long run much cheaper. More bang for the buck , so to speak.

23. Jun 17, 2007 | 12:34 am

    R_gangsta wrote:

    we did this at school for science on our hands inside school:P

24. Jul 5, 2007 | 9:54 pm

    tram294 wrote:

    yoo man thanks for showin us dat we took it to the next level though we took three lighters and taped em together and did all the water and stuff in a cut open water drum it was crazy but it lasted like two seconds and we all got away from the flash fire safe

25. Aug 17, 2007 | 6:49 am

    james wrote:

    have a fire extinguisher ready if you do this i nearly set my room on fire lol

26. Aug 18, 2007 | 12:00 am

    should b sleeping wrote:

    Going off on a tangent, you can take a (pref. empty) fast food drink cup, remove the straw and fill the cup with a butane lighter through the lid. Light the straw on fire then place over the hole. Not exactly safe but not dangerous either (aside from the obvious playing with fire and burning drops of plastic from the straw) Makes a relatively loud pop but doesn’t hurt the cup.

27. Aug 25, 2007 | 5:12 pm

    bubbles on fyyyyre wrote:

    I used a ceramic bowl and took off the top of a lysol container. I made a mountain of bubbles about 6 inches high. I lit it an woosh! Four foot flame thought i’d burn the house. It only happened in the end that i blew it out because is was huge. I guess you can say i had a bon fire in the kitchen lol.

28. Sep 7, 2007 | 8:36 pm

    Matthew wrote:

    For a safety tip you should use a long nosed barbecue lighter

29. Sep 14, 2007 | 2:55 am

    pyroexperienced wrote:

    you can also wet ur hand and scoop up some bubbles. when u lite them they wont burn u.

30. Sep 29, 2007 | 1:03 pm

    try this it home! wrote:

    hey this flamey thing gave me an idea that is really cool! take a blow torch and turn the nobe all the way off and pull and hold the ignition thing and no flame should come out. now keep holding the ignition button but turn the nob up to make propain or what ever is in there come out with no flame. now put a small plastic bag over it, like a trash bag, not ziplock and tie it off once full. then take the torch and burrn the bag and it practicly explodes! great way to burn off arm hair! lol

31. Oct 7, 2007 | 5:14 pm

    Pyromancy wrote:

    i love fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

32. Nov 22, 2007 | 1:55 pm

    bubble burner wrote:

    add hydgen {look at electrolsis}to get a fast poppin
    sound

33. Dec 2, 2007 | 9:29 pm

    Matthew wrote:

    you can use a magnifying glass to set the bubbles on fire by the suns power

34. Dec 4, 2007 | 10:50 pm

    2bapyro wrote:

    Another thing that you may be able to do with this is get a gallon or so of gas, a bubble gun or wand, and a lighter.(Make sure that you can put a lid or something on the gas to block the fumes.) This first one may not work if it’s windy .
    variation 1. put a small amount of gas in the bubble soap stuff. turn on the lighter and blow the bubbles. they should be allover the place on fire.
    variation 2. take the cap off of the gas. then blow out the bubbles. light the lighter and you should get the same effect.
    I haven’t tested these so they may not work. Please someone post if it does.

35. Dec 17, 2007 | 9:41 am

    Jaythedogg wrote:

    Hydrolosis + soap = HHO burning bubbles….. Be EXTREMELY careful, hydrogen explodes with force & high db even in an open space.

36. Dec 26, 2007 | 2:16 pm

    Sam wrote:

    Try collect the gas in a test tube and pour it onto a candle. Nice plume.

37. Jan 27, 2008 | 6:18 pm

    Anonymous wrote:

    take some hydrogen and bubble it through a buket of sopey water, u get a huge collum of bubbles, and when it gets realy big, light it on fire!!!

38. Jan 27, 2008 | 6:18 pm

    Anonymous wrote:

    PS dosnt have to be hrdrogen, as long as it’s lighter than air, and flamable

39. Jan 30, 2008 | 2:42 pm

    bruiser wrote:

    What would it do if I bubbled butane and at the same time bubbled pure oxygen from my oxy tank? The bubble mass would be a mixture of fuel and O2…am I gonna hurt mysemf?

40. Feb 13, 2008 | 10:00 pm

    Matt wrote:

    I saw My chemistry teacher do this except he used the gas from his desk in order to make them go up to the ceiling and light them in mid air

41. Feb 23, 2008 | 4:34 pm

    Jeremy wrote:

    I did this on my patio, when my parents werent home, near a bush, put it together. I had to use a fire extingusher and my parents were asking for weeks what smelled so bad, the bushes were burnt so I cut them out. I still havent been caught. [:

42. Mar 28, 2008 | 7:23 am

    magneto wrote:

    use a laboratory gas tap (methane) and more soap and you can make an incredibly stable tower of bubbles.
    i made a 9 foot tower before igniting from the bottom up… twas cool

43. Apr 7, 2008 | 4:14 am

    insane wrote:

    I just managed one fun exoploding idea, and tryed it with great satisfaction..(sorry about my english, im from Finland:)) Step 1: Spray hairspray into a airballoon, LOT! Step 2: Blow air in it also, hairspay taste like shit don’t puke. Step 3: Close the balloon with a knot. Step 4: Tape a piece toilet paper or etc, on to balloon. Step 5: Light the paper and make sure that you get far enough from balloon that it won’t blow up in your hands, like happened to me at first time:) Have fun, and I hope that you underestand even some of the text:)

44. Jun 24, 2008 | 11:05 am

    steven wrote:

    Sweet! I just did this yesterday with my friend and it was awesome. We used the butane refill canister and it worked great.

45. Jun 25, 2008 | 11:14 am

    Wooo Man wrote:

    Try this with spray on sunscreen, huge flame!

46. Jun 30, 2008 | 10:02 am

    fire man wrote:

    Another cool way to make fire bubbles is:
    get a canister of propane (the camping kind) and put a hose on the threaded outlet. fill a container up with dish soap. turn the propane bottle on until it is barely coming out. put the other end of the hose (the one thats not attached to the bottle) in the liquid soap. when a bubble starts to form, gently raise the hose out of the soap with the growing bubble still attached. pull the hose out of the bubble so the bubble is just floating in the air. (a lot of times the bubble pops at this point. just keep trying.) while the bubble is FLOATING FREELY IN THE AIR, AND NOT ATTACHED TO YOUR PROPANE HOSE (this creates a flame thrower), light the bubble from underneath. you can even do it inside like i did because the gas (propane, mapp gas, etc.) is the only thing burning. it would be pretty hard to ignite your ceiling. (but not impossible, remember that.) Hint: the bigger the bubble, the bigger the fireball.

47. Jul 5, 2008 | 3:11 pm

    Nio wrote:

    a what

48. Jul 7, 2008 | 6:17 pm

    Johnnyboy wrote:

    Get a bubble gun mix it with bubble water and lighter fluid. Haha bubble fire gun.

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51. Jul 16, 2008 | 4:09 pm

    cool kid wrote:

    that looks asome I will give it a shot

52. Jul 16, 2008 | 5:32 pm

    crash n’ burn wrote:

    i have a question does a gas recharger work as well as the ligther i mean to get more bubbles

53. Jul 18, 2008 | 3:51 pm

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