What IS fire? (and what happened in Beirut?)
#056
Seriously. What is fire? This week Melissa and Jam hop out of the frying pan. What are those warm orange wisps? We all sort of know what fire is but also, do we? It's hot, it can be good, it can be bad. But why does it look like that? And what really IS it? Let's try to find out
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References from this episode
- https://unto.com/beirut
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/05/beirut-explosion-how-help-victims-lebanon/3300822001/
- https://mypages.iit.edu/~smart/pawebar/lesson3.html
- https://www.chem.fsu.edu/chemlab/chm1020c/Lecture%207/01.php
- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00333
- https://www.sbu.edu/docs/default-source/life-at-sbu-documents/chemistry-of-a-fire.pdf?sfvrsn=0
- https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Ammonium-nitrate#section=Boiling-Point
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-ammonium-nitrate-the-chemical-that-exploded-in-beirut/
- https://www.cisa.gov/an-security-statutes-and-regulations
- https://www.cisa.gov/ammonium-nitrate-security-program
- https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R43070.pdf
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/08/03/congress-pushes-rules-explosive-fertilizer/31075955/
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#056
Seriously. What is fire? This week Melissa and Jam hop out of the frying pan. What are those warm orange wisps? We all sort of know what fire is but also, do we? It's hot, it can be good, it can be bad. But why does it look like that? And what really IS it? Let's try to find out
Want to start your own podcast? Use Transistor and you'll have the best podcast platform available. We use it and we are totally in love with it.
References from this episode
- https://unto.com/beirut
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/05/beirut-explosion-how-help-victims-lebanon/3300822001/
- https://mypages.iit.edu/~smart/pawebar/lesson3.html
- https://www.chem.fsu.edu/chemlab/chm1020c/Lecture%207/01.php
- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00333
- https://www.sbu.edu/docs/default-source/life-at-sbu-documents/chemistry-of-a-fire.pdf?sfvrsn=0
- https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Ammonium-nitrate#section=Boiling-Point
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-ammonium-nitrate-the-chemical-that-exploded-in-beirut/
- https://www.cisa.gov/an-security-statutes-and-regulations
- https://www.cisa.gov/ammonium-nitrate-security-program
- https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R43070.pdf
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/08/03/congress-pushes-rules-explosive-fertilizer/31075955/
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- Suzanne Phillips
- Nelly Silva
- Venus Rebholz
- Lyn Stubblefield
- Jacob Taber
- Brian Kimball
- Emerson Woodhall
- Kristina Gotfredsen
- Timothy Parker
- Steven Boyles
- Chris Skupien
- Chelsea B
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