15-year-old scientist destroys perfectly good grill

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Some teenagers go through a phase of setting random things on fire, and 15-year-old Tyler Barlow is no different. Though he might have gone a little overboard with this stunt.

With two assistants by his side, Barlow mixes together red iron oxide and aluminum powder together to create thermite, a substance that gets extremely hot (6,000 degrees hot) when ignited. Two innocent pots fell victim to Barlow's experiment before he moved on to the big stuff -- dumping the rest of the thermite on top of the grill. The resulting fireworks show melted through the grill and set much of the surrounding grass of fire.

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