Jun 272012
Gummy bears: basically just sugar. What happens when you introduce sugar to molten potassium chlorate? Let’s watch!
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I suspect you could get similar results by grinding up the gummy bear (cheese grater?) and mixing it with the powdered potassium chlorate and igniting with a lit strip of magnesium. If you melt the gummy, but not the PC, then you might be able to mix them together into an entertainingly energetic solid rocket propellant. Not that that would be a wise thing to do for most people, of course. If you try this and melt your face off, don’t blame me.