Firing a (very old) musket and filming with a (very new) high-speed camera. With thanks to Jim Gamble. MORE SLOW MOTION VIDEOS HERE: http://bit.ly/chemslomo Also discussed by Professor Martyn Poliakoff. Ebay auction has ended. Music courtesy of Henrik 'Appe' Johansson. More chemistry at http://www.periodicvideos.com/ Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/periodicvideos And on Twitter at http://twitter.com/periodicvideos From the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/chemistry/index.aspx Periodic Videos films are by video journalist Brady Haran: http://www.bradyharan.com/ Watch videos about EVERY element: http://bit.ly/VT9nNZ Reactions filmed with a Phantom Miro. We used this: http://www.visionresearch.com/Products/High-Speed-Cameras/Miro-M310/ Special thanks to Destin from Smarter Every Day for helping us out: null Brady's other channels include: null (Physics and astronomy) null (Numbers and maths) null (Space stuff) null (Science and behind the scenes) null (Food science) null (Big science facilities) null (Favourite scientists) null (Academic look at the Bible) null (Modern language and culture) null (Philosophy stuff)