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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.

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

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

• Me with the Technology Connections and Legal Eagle YouTube channels lately.

Ha, I too had important research to do last night

To be fair, it is important to know what is fire.

*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.

As a physicist, I find I get less confident in my ability to answer questions like this each day.