Halloween Mystery - Ghost Flame!

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  • Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
  • This video was featured on the show "Outrageous Acts of Science" ("You Have Been Warned" in the UK) in Season 6, Episode 15: Punked! I'm an international TV star!
    Strange things happen around the lab on All Hallows' Eve!
    Check out this mysterious flame I was able to create with just a regular lighter and a lunch box.
    Solution now posted! • Solution: Halloween My...
    Congrats to those that figured it out!

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  • @ScienceMaths2012
    @ScienceMaths2012 11 років тому

    As u guys can also see , its the lighter which is changing pointing direction , and get deeper and deeper , this means the lighter was inside a layer of gas which does not support burning thus the fire staying at the same level , the fire changing place because the direction of gas flow gas been changed , these are evidence for my guessings are reasonable , CO2 is already dense enough , and its cheapest and most easy to obtain , also CO2 is enough for this to work

  • @ScienceMaths2012
    @ScienceMaths2012 11 років тому

    It's a lunch box previously used for filling dry ice , when it vaporises it leaves the lunch box with full of CO2 gas , which is not flammable , since the butane gas in the lighter is lighter than CO2, and CO2 cannot support burning , when the lighter is moved towards the gas , the butane enters the CO2 layer which does not support burning , but soon floats to the air and was able to burn again , thus it seemed that the fire has been away from the lighter , but in reality is the butane .....

  • @johanengqvist4333
    @johanengqvist4333 11 років тому

    I'd say it's liquid nitrogen at the bottom of the "lunch box" and therefore the box is filled with uncombustable nitrogen.

  • @ScienceMaths2012
    @ScienceMaths2012 11 років тому

    CO2 generated with dry ice , this is the most simple and practice way to do so , also its not possible to hold aluminium foil boat on a gas unless the gas is moving up wards

  • @MylesJP
    @MylesJP 11 років тому

    Maybe it is flammable but burns cool enough that the flame is invisible. Hydrogen perhaps? I think it would have to be flammable for the flame to continue after being disconnected from the lighter for so long.

  • @Bbfishman
    @Bbfishman 11 років тому

    yeah thats what i was thinking too, but the fact that the lighter is normal at first and then changes back and forth makes me think theres got to be some gas in the box that is more dense than the air or something along those lines. Possibly the ink is put on the lighter in such a way that it only activates the trick when its tilted at a certain angle. idk

  • @Schizize
    @Schizize 11 років тому

    lets say a little thing called CO2 in the lunch box same as if you light a candle and leave it over a bowl then put it out by pouring the "ghost" in the bowl over the flame.

  • @JonasDePazi
    @JonasDePazi 11 років тому

    I think there is a gas in the box that is unflameable and havier than air.

  • @Minerofthediamonds
    @Minerofthediamonds 11 років тому

    If you look when he points the lighter down the flame gets farther away from the it, because the fluid is going down, bring ing the flame down

  • @Smidge204
    @Smidge204 11 років тому

    You can float an aluminum foil boat on a pool of sulfur hexafluoride gas, or any other sufficiently dense gas. Buoyancy does not require movement of the fluid to work. ;)

  • @ScienceMaths2012
    @ScienceMaths2012 11 років тому

    Burning in another path, this works because CO2 does not support burning. And butane is lighter than CO2

  • @SirRegynald
    @SirRegynald 11 років тому

    i think that box is filled whit some Noble gas, like Xe or Ar. If It's true, you can make a boat of aluminum foil float.

  • @nodariel
    @nodariel 11 років тому

    The souls of dead animals millions of years old.

  • @mariscaljesus7853
    @mariscaljesus7853 11 років тому +2

    Its ink from a pen

  • @Smidge204
    @Smidge204 11 років тому

    CO2 doesn't seem dense enough to stay settled in the box and not get caught up/mixed with the jet of butane... so my guess is probably something heavier. Sulfur hexafluoride immediately jumps to mind but might be too exotic a material (maybe not for mrhomescientist, though!). R-134a seems a good candidate and is easily obtainable from "canned air" dusters, and is more than three times denser than CO2.

  • @cphzoo28
    @cphzoo28 11 років тому

    I think there's an innert, heavy gas, like the sulfur hexafluoride

  • @TheShadowfexx
    @TheShadowfexx 11 років тому

    its not baking soda and vinegar or co2 because they replace oxygen and oxygen is needed for fire to burn i have done this without a lunchbox hell ive done this out on the street its the pressure from the lighter when you tip the lighter sideways the pressure increases

  • @aten747official
    @aten747official 11 років тому

    some fluid(Gas or liquid) that is preventing the flame from burning right next to the lighter

  • @ScienceMaths2012
    @ScienceMaths2012 11 років тому

    CO2 is fine , even the butane is mixed up with CO2 as long as it has it contact with air it can continue to burn , the key that the CO2 surrounds the mouth of the lighter , and the burning can't be supported and butane find its way to do so.,...

  • @Vervayn
    @Vervayn 11 років тому

    The box is filled with Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF6)

  • @davidparker1256
    @davidparker1256 10 років тому

    The lack of air

  • @legitkookameli219
    @legitkookameli219 11 років тому

    theres no 02 in the box so the flame wont go down in there thats why it stays above the brim of the box

  • @KowboyUSA
    @KowboyUSA 11 років тому

    A heavier than air, non-flammable gas, likely CO2, in the lunch box.

  • @IAmNumber4000
    @IAmNumber4000 10 років тому +3

    Lighter fluid can't combust without O2, you must have filled the lunchbox with some kind of dense and inert gas.

  • @frostbyt1134
    @frostbyt1134 11 років тому

    A gas heavier than air, probably CO2 or N2, maybe SF6.

  • @fishbob86
    @fishbob86 11 років тому

    lunch box has xenon in it... any heavy inert gas really

  • @blubb7711
    @blubb7711 11 років тому

    I thin, you filed the Box with CO2 ore some other heavy, non burning gas.

  • @ryshuko
    @ryshuko 10 років тому

    burning oxygen in lunchbox, flame moves to oxygen in other areas and burns it.

  • @Vervayn
    @Vervayn 11 років тому

    SF6 is heavier and denser than air so it stays in the case . I want my gift now .

  • @bovachuck
    @bovachuck 11 років тому

    good morning, if in fact I thought lunch box is empty, I would guess the lighter is spitting out more fuel than its burning nice too much fun

  • @sunnyd8585
    @sunnyd8585 4 роки тому

    My theory is that there is a gas that doesn’t support combustion in the lunch box.

  • @100djvox
    @100djvox 11 років тому

    my guess is that u have hade frosenj co2 aka dry ice in the box and couse it is a heavy gas it has staid down in the box thuss preventing the flame from burning

  • @TheSHJGaming
    @TheSHJGaming 10 років тому

    There was some sort of asphyxiant gas in there, which suffocated the flame. My guess is CO2, but it could of been anything like argon or xenon.

  • @fisher222devon
    @fisher222devon 11 років тому

    A gas heavier than air. Then flameable gas goes above and the fire ignites it.

  • @matthewbevern3314
    @matthewbevern3314 9 років тому

    There is another gas in the lunch box that is heavier than the gas in the lighter so the gas from the lighter goes to the top

  • @austinwhite2415
    @austinwhite2415 10 років тому

    Fire is going to oxygen.

  • @petethewrist
    @petethewrist 11 років тому

    Is that ice cold water? As the gas hits it, it get colder and so dose not light so easy and travels a little to get warm . Thats my gause, Cheers, Pete.

  • @dovelay
    @dovelay 11 років тому

    filled the lunchbox w/ co2

  • @johne442
    @johne442 11 років тому

    Baking soda and vinager

  • @AmirRosenzweig
    @AmirRosenzweig 11 років тому

    I think that thers a withe plank that we cant see

  • @charliedoherty9528
    @charliedoherty9528 11 років тому

    U just put ink on the tube beside the flint easy

  • @luke6400
    @luke6400 9 років тому

    It could be carbon dioxide or sulfur hexaflouride, since they are denser than air

  • @TOTI416
    @TOTI416 11 років тому

    I tink baking soda and vinegar

  • @BoardSkate73
    @BoardSkate73 11 років тому

    I'm gonna go with that.

  • @benjaminmcgowran8185
    @benjaminmcgowran8185 9 років тому +3

    why would he try putting a lighter in a lunch box anyway?

  • @John2413h
    @John2413h 11 років тому

    Sulfur hexafloride.

  • @MultiMinecarft
    @MultiMinecarft 11 років тому

    Jep, box is just filled with CO2

  • @OSDevon
    @OSDevon 11 років тому

    Some sort of natural gas?

  • @mickles1975
    @mickles1975 11 років тому

    Carbon Dioxide.

  • @Doctorgallium
    @Doctorgallium 11 років тому

    CO2 is full of the box

  • @merseyless
    @merseyless 11 років тому

    The word for today is "Inflammable"

  • @Crusefer
    @Crusefer 10 років тому

    Sulfur Hexafloride?

  • @randombrominebox8709
    @randombrominebox8709 11 років тому

    Dry ice . Not

  • @joeminiclip8720
    @joeminiclip8720 10 років тому

    Don't use that 100 year old balonga

  • @JW-kl9jz
    @JW-kl9jz 11 років тому

    its filled with some kind of gas?

  • @govindschavan
    @govindschavan 11 років тому

    N2 would be less heavy than air right?

  • @Lathan308
    @Lathan308 11 років тому

    C02 from dry ice

  • @bruceliu1657
    @bruceliu1657 10 років тому

    co2 maybe

  • @fabiom.8952
    @fabiom.8952 11 років тому

    lunchbox full of co2 or sf6?

  • @billtrieshmann5979
    @billtrieshmann5979 6 років тому

    It is the power of the dark lord

  • @vProxify
    @vProxify 11 років тому

    Carbon dioxide?

  • @sellvideo1223
    @sellvideo1223 10 років тому

    a gas

  • @daviddordevski9562
    @daviddordevski9562 10 років тому

    what!? i am confused with that it might be the lunchbox and the lighter being tilted on a side my brother is confused to? what!?!?

  • @viniciusnoyoutube
    @viniciusnoyoutube 10 років тому

    Nice!

  • @AnobisBloodwing
    @AnobisBloodwing 11 років тому

    lol what kind of heavy gas ar you yousing?
    nitrogen?

  • @timsteffan2511
    @timsteffan2511 11 років тому

    so ein teil hab ich auch... wie oder warum es aber funktioniert weiß ich nicht, kann mir das irgend einer beantworten?!

  • @norxcontacts
    @norxcontacts 11 років тому

    magnets

  • @x9x9x9x9x9
    @x9x9x9x9x9 11 років тому

    I'm going to say CO2

  • @grantyman22
    @grantyman22 11 років тому

    Xenon or carbon dioxide?

  • @TRUE_GR1T
    @TRUE_GR1T 11 років тому

    lol ink?

  • @ImFordy
    @ImFordy 10 років тому

    2 spoopy 4 me

  • @Kaas372
    @Kaas372 11 років тому

    CO2 gas

  • @cheeseheadwarrior
    @cheeseheadwarrior 11 років тому

    Co2 nice

  • @epicminecrafter21
    @epicminecrafter21 10 років тому

    What was he doing with the lunch box? lol

  • @mauka259
    @mauka259 11 років тому

    co2!!!

  • @4jess5
    @4jess5 11 років тому

    it Is haunted :|

  • @jordanfrance
    @jordanfrance 10 років тому

    Idk and idc

  • @danielpoopface
    @danielpoopface 11 років тому

    I think its sulfur hexaflouride