Anybody know of a type of wire that will overheat with current from a 9V battery?

Question

I am working on a school physics project and I need a resistor wire that will overheat enough when attached to a 9V battery that it will ignite a phosphorous match head. I am hoping that there is a common household wire that will do the trick.

Answer 1

NiChrome wire is used in heating devices such as toasters and hair-dryers.
A three inch piece of wire from the heating element of an old hair-dryer should do the trick.
Nichrome is a nickel-chromium alloy.

Answer 2

The only kind of copper wire that will do this is very fine copper wire -- 36 gauge or finer. You can find that in some kinds of multi-stranded thicker wire, by taking a single strand of the multi-strand wire. If you have some old headphones, or audio cables that are in the junk box -- that's your best bet. Strip the old headphone wires, and pull out the multi-strand wire, then unravel it to get a single strand.

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Answer 3

Steer clear of copper and aluminum wire. Steel has a much higher resistance so a short piece of a very thin paper clip or a staple might do the trick. Remember the shorter the wire is, the less resistance it has and thus the more current it will conduct. Current=heat. Good luck.

Answer 4

Any type of wire will do the trick so long as its small enough (in gauge thickness). You can also buy an igniter for a model rocket set which will work fine.

Answer 5

You did'nt wrote for what you using the over heat wire
if you using wire for blast or fire making perpose then its a different question .
any way
you can't over heat a wire . with a singal 9 v battery
cause the 9 volts battery is made for radio and low watt devices.
try using 8 aaa size betteries it will give you 12 volts . will work better then 9 v bettery .

Answer 6

A piece of fine copper wire wound one turn around the match head will do it.
Keep your fingers away!

Answer 7

attach the wires to some household wire wool as used for cleaning pans....should do the trick.

Answer 8

No, You wont sense DC contemporary. whether AC contemporary (the stuff that comes out of the wall) is deadly in tiny quantities. whether in electrical energy its no longer Voltage that kills, its contemporary. Thats why 50000v tasers infrequently kill. extensive voltage yet minute contemporary. think of of it like water. contemporary (measured in amps for electrical energy) is the quantity of litres (or the type of electrons) passing a undeniable factor according to 2d . Voltage is the rigidity of the present. so which you have one litre according to 2d flowing by way of a metre huge pipe and it would dribble out the tip. placed a million litre according to 2d by way of a 1mm huge pipe and the flow will commute various metres out the tip. rigidity will boost skill in the water and electrical energy bypass. V

Answer 9

wire from a edison bulb (a regular yellow light bulb). It has tungsten filament.

Answer 10

qual ti cu pordeis es masor di philips masu dertor ulpala ( 1.5 V ,200mA ).

take a lightbulb remove glass et voila !