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Over on GeekBeat LIVE we’re checking out some scientific principles by doing a few things you probably shouldn’t. Seriously, don’t try this at home.
Fire and Ice
So how do you get ice to burn? With a little help from some calcium carbide, which produces a flammable gas when mixed with water.
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Errm… where was the ice on fire exactly? I see you burning something ON ice, but that’s not the same thing at all. You could put anything in a bowl of ice and burn it, the black deposits on the ice was just soot from the flame, nothing to do with the ice burning…. obviously. I just found that whole video a bit pathetic. Clearly you can’t burn ice, it’s frozen water!
A perfect way to make kids do extremely dangerous things at home is to make a stupid video like this. Havent seen anything of you since geekbrief. Just surfed in and Im not impressed.
I like to play with calcium carbide, but, just burning it is BORING!!! Go get yourself a carbide cannon! I’m 55 and have played with these things since I was a kid. Try a place like bigbangcannons.com