Bang!!Bang!!Boom!!

hahaha.. quite a loud title I got there, well, you guys may have guess what's it all about. Of course, aidilfitri would never be complete without 'mercuns', haha don't like to call it fireworks, sounds to formal, 'mercuns' better hehe. And this raya, though its not that happenin' like previous raya, still, I had fun playing mercuns. Fyi, every year, I and my cousins always play fireworks which we got from our uncle, about one big box full with various mercuns like, Thunderking, Thunderclap, Rocket, Gasing, telur naga, ketupat, bola, botol, papan and lots more.

Though all this mercuns are wonderful but the most exciting for me is to play 'meriam katak'. That's the best and the most dangerous type of firework I've ever played because it's not a commercial firework instead, its a hand-made one, haha and thats the first time I learn chemistry practically without unrealising it. Why did I said this? first of all, what is 'meriam katak'. I'll tell you, its very simple and easy, take a small amount of 'karbaid', pour some water on it, then quickly, close the 'karbaid' on the ground by putting a paint tin on it upside down so its bottom is above. Make sure the bottom has a small hole that you must made earlier. Light a fire on that hole,, in a blink of an eye BOOOOOM!!!!!!! the tin would flew about 10m high above in the air, wooow, amazing hehe.

I started to play 'meriam katak' when I was form 2 with my bro n cousins. But only when I was form 4, I realized the chemical process of it. I found out that 'karbaid' is actually carbide or C in kimia. When you pour water on it, the reaction would be,, 2C + 2H2O > CO2 + 2H2 so, you'll get a lot of highly flammable hydrogen gas in the tin. Then when you burn it or ignite it, the reaction is,, H2 + O2 > H20 and maybe because of the very high heat of combustion, booom! it explodes. Woow, isn't it amazing, you could understand more about chemistry by playing 'mercun', so, it's not that bad hahah. let's play mercunnn!!

WARNING::: Playing mercun is really fun, but it is a high risk. I've been chased by cops twice (seb bek dpt nyorok, haha) and once by a nearby neighbour of my grandma's house coz' a thunderclap unpurposely went into his house thru the window, hehe, erk..