Learning what fire actually is, like what the flames are literally made of, blew my freaking mind years ago.
Fire is literally just gas (and fine solid particulates suspended therein) that contains so much thermal energy that its black body radiosity has reached into the visual spectrum.
There are some types of flames that are NOT bright enough to be visible under ambient lighting conditions and can only be seen in environments that are very dark!
Pure ethanol, for instance, combusts dark enough that you can't see the flames in daylight conditions, or even under strong artificial lighting.
Methanol fires in racing are scary. No flame, no smoke, just burning you.
New fear aquired
I saw that in a documentary recently. Absolutely terrifying.
that its black body radiosity has reached into the visual spectrum
Ehm wut.
For the love of all that is holy stop cropping out the artist's watermarks
it is literally more effort to crop out the watermark
It isnt cropped out is it? There's still some on there at least.
I don't understand why some people do it, it's just such an insanely shitty thing to do that doesn't seem like it'd have any benefit whatsoever (not saying it was the OP, these tend to float around the internet.)
Wikipedia rabbit holes at 3 am 🔥
Me up until 3am, thinking I should go to bed
1:30h documentary on roman concrete later, I'm still thinking I should go to bed
As a physicist, I find I get less confident in my ability to answer questions like this each day.
- Me with the Technology Connections and Legal Eagle YouTube channels lately.
Why did I just spend an hour learning how they recorded audio on VHS?
Technology Connections is the shit! The episode on hurricane lanterns is great and has a stupid joke in there that comes so far out of left field it killed me: https://youtu.be/tURHTuKHBZs
Is that the one where he says
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Dietz nuts
with a straight face?
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Ha, I too had important research to do last night
We're not talking about that kind of research ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
To be fair, it is important to know what is fire.
Eli5. What is fire?
Fire is a sustained chemical reaction where carbon-based molecules are broken up and combine with oxygen, releasing carbon dioxide, sometimes methane, and heat (and thus light), which primes the remaining carbon-based molecules for continued chemical reactions with oxygen.
Financial Independence Retire Early
*fire is the rapid oxidization of fuel resulting in heat and light.
We only research the important things at night
A few minutes past 3, so he did indeed stay up long.
Here's something I find interesting.
Firstly, the definition from Wikipedia: Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
For all you bad cooks out there, the reason you can't burn water when you're cooking is because water is already fully oxidized. Water is also often one of those reaction products the definition talks about.
I other words, you can't burn water because it's already burnt.
Also, in order to have fire you need heat, and water is wonderful at absolving and dissipating heat.
