Surf the internet for long enough and you'll run into a recipe for a mix that's explosive, or at least as fiery as a dragon. Brake fluid and chlorine is an example as good as any, one that has obviously been documented in science papers.

But what about the burning, melting, threatening real life experience - what happens when you organize a meeting between calcium hypochlorite (your average granular pool cleaner) and polyethylene glycol (this is the brake fluid).
By the way, did we mention you shouldn't try this at home? No, really, you shouldn't. The mix is explosive to say the least, and only small quantities of it have been tested for scientific purposes so far.
The crew over at the Good Mythical Morning show on Youtube have decided to try this, so you won't have to. Once, do keep in mind not even these subscriber-friendly Daredevils played the chemistry game at home.
Instead, they did it while out camping. And you know things can get out of control when you're in such a situation. Sometimes you forget to pack the bread, while on other occasions you stand inches away from a developing blast.
Let's just say the guys went a bit ahead of themselves here, with flesh being put at risk. Their goggles looked decently safe though, so we won;t complain about that.
When somebody goes ahead and pulls such a shenanigan in a lab, the quantities are extremely limited - you know how expensive equipment can be and blowing everything up doesn't exactly lead to a scientific conclusion.
Well, these guys weren't in a laboratory, so they used quite a bit more of both substances than they should have.
You can check out the decently dangerous result in the video below (jump to the 9:55 mark) and we feel this gives us one more reason not to drive our cars through the pool. Especially not during cleaning operations.
P.S.: For all the chemistry geeks out there, we've included something delicious in the PDF below.
Via: Jalopnik

A flash form of methamphetamine (see Meth) which requires little time / skill to cook and changes colors when smoked. Chameleon Dope is generally produced using chlorine tablets and Dot-3 brake fluid in an aluminum can lined with Phenyl.

Tweaker 1: Damn dude, the dope just turned blue and pink!!
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A flash dope form of methamphetamine (see Meth) that requires little skill to cook. String Dope is generally cooked using activated charcoal, gun bluing, and sudsless ammonia in an airtight cooler, where the methamphetamines will grow on unwaxed strings like stalactites over a period of 14-31 days. The nickname for this particular form resulted from junkies often finding pieces of the string when breaking their dope down in the spoon, bottle cap, or whatever.
String Dope generally has a half-life of 5-7 days after being exposed to UV light.

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Tweaker Junkie 2: Man this should be good, it's String Dope!

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Verb: To engage in producting a form of methamphetamine (see Meth.)

Tweaker 1: Hey man, we're out of dope!
Tweaker 2: No worries, grab some matchbooks and we'll cook us some more.

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Noun: A form of methamphetamine or pseudomethamphetamine (see Meth) with a limited potency lifespan and usually requiring little time to cook.
Chameleon Dope and String Dope are popular forms of flash dope.

by April 26, 2006

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Slang or short for Chameleon Dope (Chlorine Tablet and Dot-3 Brake Fluid) which is a popular methamphetamine (see Meth) form of flash dope.

Tweaker 1: Man, do you think this dope is any good?
Tweaker 2: Bro, it's turning blue, it's Chameleon!!

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