Lucan 8 here at the outdoor boys youtube channel and we're gonna find out whether you can make one of these super polished aluminum foil balls by simply sticking tin foil in a microwave  last week we had a great time making some videos where we took balls of aluminum foil and compressed them and.

Polished them till they absolutely shined kind of pointless but it's actually kind of fun we have a great time doing that with me and the boys and we got a lot of awesome comments from people and one of those common comments we got was people encouraging me to put it in microwave they said that if you take a ball of aluminum foil and.

Microwave it for three to five minutes it'll turn into this and you don't need to spend all that time hammering and polishing and all that stuff and I did a little searching around it turns out people are saying this because there's a video out there where some guy says you can do that just that and he puts a ball of aluminum foil in hits it for a few.

Minutes and out pops a perfectly polished sphere of aluminum so we're gonna find out what happens when you put a ball of aluminum foil in the microwave and whether or not you can polish aluminum by heating it up hey Becca can I put an aluminum ball in the microwave no can i light a fire no can i melt aluminum foil in the microwave yeah how.

About now for those of you who do not know putting aluminum foil and a microwave can be exciting so let me just put this little tiny bit in there just to give you a flavor for what to expect  let's check it out  you know it's cool to the touch it's not.

Even warm so this right here is an entire roll of aluminum foil that's been compressed into a ball we're gonna put it in here and see what happens now some people have left comments that if we put it in the microwave for three to five minutes it'll make it really perfectly smooth and make it all glossy we're gonna find out what happens we're gonna.

Put it in for about five minutes and just find out  well this is disappointing it's not popping or exploding or lighting on fire or anything it's actually more dramatic with just a little tiny piece of aluminum than with the whole big ball but who knows it still might polish it.

Might melt it down and make it easier to to polish it we'll find out I'm gonna let it go the full five minutes all right check this out it's just a little bit warm that's it didn't do anything that was epically disappointing well guys you came here to see sparks and fireworks and crazy microwave stuff so we got to put more.

Tin foil in the microwave don't we yeah let's do this thing yeah we're going to make something happen here all right I did burn a little bit back there that melted the plastic and burned a little hole back there Oh a little bit here too huh well apparently loose aluminum foil duh makes it up and go crazy but compacted.

Compressed lumen in foil does not so I'm gonna try something crazy just put a loose ball of aluminum foil in there and see what happens see what we got barely even warm little hole right there little little hole right there little hole right there but ya didn't really do much of anything just put a few holes in it made it.

Slightly warm made some sparks disappointing bird in the microwave a burn in the microwave that was fun but I think it's pretty clear you cannot create a super polished ball of aluminum simply by sticking some tin foil in the microwave I think somebody was pulling a little prank on the internet with that video additionally I got a load of.

Comments from my my mates across the pond informing me that I was spelling alluminium incorrectly there are two correct spellings for aluminum or aluminium depending on what type of English you like to speak British English it's aluminium with an extra I and here in the great US of A in America we say aluminium thanks for watching we.

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