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Lycopodium makes chemistry fun

submitted by lavoll

1 decade 5 years 7 months 1 week ago

When flammable powders are dispersed in the air, they can explode. Throughout history, that phenomenon has lead to explosions in grain storage facilities. In this case, the scientist ignites a cloud of lycopodium spores.

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Wow, that looks fun, like being in a circus! Adding the *brief tag to this could only get it more attention.

This video has been flagged as being less than 1 minute in length - declared brief by UsesProzac.

Moving this video to lavoll's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

You might want to be a bit careful where you tried that.

*length=36

The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 36 secs - length declared by oritteropo.

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by oritteropo.

and thats why why you don't use your vacuum cleaner on flour.

ant

*timeshift *fire

Adding video to channels (Fire, Timeshift) - requested by ant.

1) throw giant cloud of coffee creamer in air
2) light lighter in cloud, or have flame under it, etc.

best outdoors for sure

That looks cool though I may have to get a box of spore-pops.

OMG I just inhaled my spore pop! Is that bad!?

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