20 things about fire
By Ben R
20 things
- If you make ice super smooth, and transparent, ice can become a magnifying glass and act as a heat magnifier
- Did you know that if a fire is moving up a hill (not like on a truck but like a forest fire) it will burn and move faster then a fire moving downhill?
There is steel, and fire grade steel. Regular steel at 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit becomes a liquid and will collapse under its own weight during a fire.
Trees can explode during wildfires. If the fire is burning hot and fast enough water deep inside the tree can quickly become steam and explode the tree.
Many people assume that fire victims die from the flame, but that is not true. Most victims of fires die from the harmful fumes that engulf the room, even before the flame can reach it.
If firefighters weren't as fast as they are, then some fires could have gotten even more out of hand. It takes less than thirty seconds for a fire to become very difficult to control. Every second count.
Fire can be extinguished if one of the Fire triangle’s three components is missing. If oxygen, heat, and fuel are missing your fire won’t burn.
The maker of the striker for a match, John Walker, made the striker by accident. While stirring a pot containing antimony, sulfide, potassium chlorate and sulfur he found that some of the mixtures stuck to the stick. As he tried to scrape the lump of he found that the stick caught fire quickly due to friction. This created the birth of friction matches.
Did you know that there’s a bush called dictamnus album, which emits a flammable, oily substance? What is so special about this plant is that this oily substance can be lit on fire without burning the bush.
In 2004, over 300 people died in a supermarket fire in Asuncion, Paraguay. The owners of the supermarket didn't want the fumes and smoke of the fire to force shoppers out of the store without paying.
Have you ever wondered who created the life-saving fire hydrant? Well, you my swell keep wondering because the patent got destroyed in a fire. What are the chances of that?
A natural gas vent in Iraq has been burning for over 4,000 years continuously. This gas vent (The Eternal Fire) has been mentioned in books as old as the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel
Over 1 million years ago our ancestors cooked using fire. Scientists believe that our ancestors cooked in a controlled way with the same reason we do. To make food safe.
Did you know that your candle flame can become, and typically burns 1,8000 degrees?
The Aztecs have a weird tradition every 52 years. Every 52 years the Aztecs calendar completed a cycle and with this the extinguished all of their torches. They did this, along with a sacrifice, in hope that the high priest would start a new fire on the ripped-open chest of that sacrificed victim.
Your candle at the base lights up blue, while at the top yellow. The reason for this is because the rising fumes from the well-oxygenated oxygen below suffocate the top oxygen and limits the supply of oxygen to the upper part of the flame.
Have you ever wondered why your campfire is multiple colors? Well, it all has to do with the oxygen supply. A high oxygen supply will light blue, while a low oxygen supply will give off a yellow glow.
Earth is the only known planet that can with stain, and supply a fire. Every plant, that we know of, doesn't have enough oxygen to supply the fire.
With a full supply of fuel, heat and oxygen levels, house fires may double in size in just over a minute. Making firefighters have a harder time extinguishing the fire.
Fire is created by oxygen and wood fueling the fire, and the vapor combusts creating a larger fire, which reruns the cycle.
6 Science related facts from the list of 20
3... When a beam is supporting a structured top to bottom (so not landscape) it is experiencing compression. Compression is like this. Take a soda can and crush it with you foot. When you put your weight on it the can put the same weight back against you. Then when the can couldn't hold its strength anymore it compressed (compression doesn't have to make the object get crushed, it's velocity is just downward.) Now, as that beam melted the floor above it experienced tension because it was pulling the object apart. The bottom of the floor was getting pulled apart, and the beam was experiencing pressure trying to push the beam together and crush it. The carpenters could have used triangles to make the structure stronger, and also could have used fireproof steel so that it wouldn't have melted causing the point above the beam to experience tension.
http://www.amazingfacts4u.com/fire/
8... The friction match! This match uses friction as its source to create a spark. When the person moves his hand at that second in time it's his instantaneous speed (speed at that moment in time.) If he times every time he lights a friction match and divides it by the number of times he tested the experiment he would find his average speed (the average speed is the average of all tests.)
http://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-fire/
18... Earth by itself can supply fire with the necessary supplies to burn. Now, the earth inertia keeps the earth away from the sun. But if it wasn't for the suns gravitational pull acting as the centripetal force the earth would continue in a straight line until an unbalanced force changes the direction. The inertia of an object will continue to go in a straight path until an unbalanced force acts upon it. If the earth weighed anymore or any less it's inertia would be less because there isn't as much momentum behind the earth, causing it to slow down (or get pulled into the sun.)
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-fire
17...Oxygen is an element. Oxygen can be found in the periodic table and is represented by an O. Oxygen had an atomic number of 8. Meaning there are 8 protons in the nucleus of the atom. Oxygen is a nonmetal and boiling point is -130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.444 degrees celsius.) Now, oxygen itself isn't dangerous, and even the 2 oxygen molecules aren't. But if table salt was added to the fire, not recommended, it wouldn't be dangerous, even if you eat it. Did you know that table salt is made up of poisonous substances, but you haven't died from salt? The reason why is because when molecules come together they can change the properties of the substance, and make the salt not dangerous. Also, because fire is multiple colors from the oxygen supply, it is a heterogeneous mixture.
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-fire
20.... Let's make an experiment. But first, I need to come up with the experiment. For this experiment were going to take the ice, as one of our independent variables, and compare it to a magnifying glass, another independent variable. We will do this experiment at the same at the same time on two different days. The reason for this is so that there aren't unfair tests for one of them (basically if the sun is at a different spot the direct contact to the magnifying glass or ice will be different.) We will keep the same material with the same dryness, constant. With this information, I drew a hypothesis that the magnifying glass would work better. Now, when you do the experiments keeping everything the same except the independent variable, you will time each run for 3 tests. Make sure everything is exactly the same, with the same material, same time, and same humidity (constants.) After you, would put your information on a table and transfer it into a graph. Whichever line is steeper (ice or magnifying glass.) Then you'll have an experiment and you will be able to tell if your hypothesis was right!
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-fire
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- Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2_rwr_qEkA
- Picture 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire
- Picture 2: http://sasquatchfuel.com/blog/how-to-build-a-proper-camp-fire/
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