Lighting a match with water
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Ri Demo Technician Andy Marmery shows us how to light a match without striking it. Using a Bunsen burner, a blowtorch and a super heated copper coil, Andy ignites the match in a stream of pure gaseous water.
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Despite all the nonsense comments, I found the video fascinating.
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@@explosu i agree 😭
All you need in order to light a match with water is two Bunsen burners.
The concept still stands, you are lighting a match with water vapor, regardless how you get it to that temperature.
Title should say: How to light a matchstick with water, 2 bunsen burners, and 3 matchsticks.
Regardless though, it was a good video :P
You beat me to it, That's what i was going to say.
lol
TheSlimyDog Shouldent it be called Lighthing a match with steam?
TobbeTheDude what the hell do you think steam is?
George Hay Steam is water in gas form. You drink steam bro? You tough ass hell
And... This video proved to me that I have hit the peak of boredom and it's time for bed.
I must admit a lot of the RI stuff is boring and pointless recently
+Matthew Garcia my pick of boredom is far far far away from here.
I could offer you all a cup of tea.
Matthew Garcia you will hit boredom when you're asking g yourself why you're watching giraffes mating
Matthew Garcia at 3am
Would love to see a thermal camera image of the apparatus
Takes me back to school and post-grad days, improvised kit and nice and casual with the blow torch on the stand. The Technician explains the principles really well.
Really cool example of using superheated water to heat things to a point of ignition. I think at one point I saw the wooden part of the match start to smolder as well as the head. It'd be cool to see this done with a solar heater or something of the like.
"Andy ignites the match in a stream of pure gaseous water."
Dude, call it steam and behave yourself
I would love to have all that stuff at home to play with :)
So did you hook yourself up with some science yet?
It was also nice to see that the steam stops being visible when it is hot enough.
"How to light a match with heat"
MegaBlackDays it was the heat of the water that lit the match the title is still accurate
George Hay it was heat air thrown by steam that light the match, not water.
tazmangw Superheated steam is still water.
first off, the way you quoted me makes little to no sense. when the tube is full of steam there is no air in there (when you fill a glass with water theres no air left in the glass except from the odd bubble which doesnt apply to this tube) the title is not misleading the water was just superheated and thus turned into steam. i'd write a ton more if you presented me with a good argument but next to all of it was wrong.
@@tazmangw I agree. although steam is being produced, it super heated beyond a certain point where the water vapor evaporated and SUPER HOT AIR is produced. that is what lit the match. Kind of like in a heat exchanger.
The drums in this series are great.
Wow lots of negative comments. I like chemistry and learning anything new about science, history, mathematics, arts, literature, agriculture, etc. You get the point. I like your vids, however, I would suggest you give details on what your using, how it works and the step by step process to get to the specific bottom line. But I did think you made a good point. Regardless.👍🏼😊
You're of course right that copper that is an excellent conductor of heat but not an especially good radiator of heat. The hot steam coming out of the tube is in direct contact with the match head and will deliver far more heat into the match than the radiant heat from the copper.
a match does not need oxygen to ignite. It has mix of chemical that provide oxygen and fuel. It needs only heat to start the reaction which goes quite fast. May be the steam is blowing away the flame so it is not visible until you move away the match immediately after it is ignited.
Really interesting experiment, proves that superheated steam is definitely worth fitting to a boiler. If that point was ever in doubt.
I like that you have to have copious amounts of fire to light a match with water LOL
No one want or needs the music. I have never been to a lecture and had some man banging on the drums
Lighting a match with overheated water.
I like how you've shown the mistakes and then hypothesized reasons for the experiment not going as expected, like at 4:46
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What happens if you do this experiment with vodka?
I was more curious if it could light the wooden part of the match...
You could heat the steam with a plasma field to 20,000°C.... if you glue the atoms together^^
A bit late on the reply here,
But if you look below the match head at 5:18, you can see the stick start to char.
Interesting but the title could be Lighting a match with steam, otherwise it feels as clickbait
Water is the most amazing stuff on the planet.
I think I saw something rather interesting. When he lights the match at 5:18 in video, if you look close enough it looks as though the match stick begins to burn just below the match head. That might be something to look into.
Wondering if the match would light that close to the tip of the super heated tube without the water?
Randy DePuy the tip wouldn't be nearly at hot without the water but yes it probably would if it still had the steam flowing through it
Is it really the water vapor that light the match or just hot air would have done it?
So you have to use a blowtorch in order to light the match?
It isn't the fact that it is inconvenient, it is the fact that he started a fire with water. It doesn't matter what he used to achieve this goal, what matters if that the goal was achieved
Now tht was freaking aweosmee...!!
To light a match with water, you had to light a match to get the bunsen burner going.
That bunsen burner's seen better days.
Lmao.. 'Using multiple sources of fire, I can light a match with water!'
holy shit is he really using that awesome tribal african music i always listen to on youtube?
.... awesome!
That's pretty awesome thank you for the video.
Another great video!
I saw no water lighting a match, i saw hot air lighting it.
Where's the macro / close up shot of you putting the match in, and not pulling it out to let it ignite? The unexpected result is just as interesting as what you set out to do to begin with!
could you shoot a very fast moving stream of water at a strike anywhere match to ignite it? would it produce enough friction to light a match?
Not sure the friction would be high enough, but add a little powdered glass and it would work.
Lighting matches with water, supported by Microsoft research.
the match head doesn't need oxygen to ignite. It contains oxidants such as KClO3 which provide quite enough oxygen (explosive) for the following reactions.
But it still needs an oxygenated environment and it also needs to be in a spot where it can't be blown out by the force of escaping steam.
You just created a very very small example of how a steam power plant creates super-heated steam to run the turbines, trust me, I'm an engineer.
Physics always finds a way :P
You don't need O2 from the air to ignite a match. The match contains an oxidizer, like KClO3.
Clyde Wary Yeah, try lighting a match under water.
Clyde Wary Only in the head of the match though. The wood of the match still needs oxygen to ignite, that's why the first time he tried to light the match only the head burned off.
Thanx .. it's really amazing
normal people: ice, water, steam
science people: solid water, liquid water, gaseous water
A clickbait that is not technically a clickbait but it is a clickbait for all practical purposes
What we can learn from this is that water does not extinguish flames because it is water but because it removes one of the essential elements of fire. When it changes from liquid to vapor as it is sprayed on a flame it takes away heat. Wet fuel such as wood does not light easily because the Water absorbs the ignition heat faster than the fuel can absorb it to sustain combustion. Question! is this the phenomenon that allows carbonized fuel such as carbonized cotton to light and burn easily?
the head of the match contains oxidizer also so it should light but then extinguish if you keep it in the stream. I wonder why it does not light.
I want to point out that, contrary to popular belief, cold tap water heats faster than warm water. Just a tidbit of extra info from my personal experience in the lab.
Great example of the fundamentals of chemistry/physics
seems like a very efficient way to light a match maybe you can make this design smaller and invent a new lighter.
Sarcasm?
That's pretty cool, I had no idea thar could be done... awesome to watch. I wish I had been able to go on to higher education, and possibly studied chemistry, I love the way science can predict things happening and you just have to try it and see what happens.
Sadly my family needed the extra income I could bring from working. Oh well, never mind.
But my 4 favourite subjects at school were maths, computer studies, biology & chemistry, in no particular order.
I think my a school viewed me as a genetic anomaly. As a girl I was supposed to enjoy Home Economics, Needlework, Art & Music, I think.... and leave the sciencey mathy stuff to the boys. It was a very old fashioned school that used to be a grammar school lol.
ya I was thinking of something like that without using bunsen burners
this is neat! thank you!
This is basically a Rube Goldberg for thermal energy. lol
so true. so true...
Shiny Rayquazza Nah. It's the UK. That means it's a Heath Robinson contraption, not a Rube Goldberg device.
Rube Goldberg indeed. Besides it was immediately and painfully obvious that most things don't/won't ignite in the absence of oxygen, unless they were some alkaline metal like Potassium, Sodium, Magnesium, etc which can extract the Oxygen from the steam itself.
I'd hate to ask this guy for a light for my cigarette.
That's one messy lab you got there
Loved the video but wouldn't it be cool if you went just a step further and took a plank and maybe hold it so you can hit it at your top strength against the table?
+brief His firemaking level isn't high enough for that.
Oh really?
Well, I can light a match with a fart and I won't need to use my hands either.
Copper is an excellent conductor of heat, are you sure it's definitely the water vapor and not just the heat radiating off the tube?
My friend says he is a pyromaniac but he is NOT the one who thought that match looked cute
woah
THAT USER NAME! XD
woah is correct my pentagonal friend
I was hoping you'd just hold a matchhead close to a running tap and the friction would somehow cause it to ignite.
Next up, light a match with a fire extinguisher
Water hot enough to light a match. Who'd'a thought that?
Am I really so tired I hadn't even noticed the drums? Christ, I need a nap.
Guys he lit a match with water, steam is water. yes he used flames to heat up the water but what did you think he was gonna light a match with cold water?
If you did not super heat the vapor as it wound through the copper coil, it would have been efficiently cooled, correct?
When I were a lad and you had to keep an eye out for sabre-toothed tigers, there was a concept called "proof reading" where content was checked for errors before publication. Anyone can slip up. No oxygen in water/steam? Insert "free" before oxygen. Also I've got an ordinary oven thermometer that goes up to 300 C, if you want to borrow it for your next experiment. I guess the RI is short of funds.
I bet you're fun at parties
+Ray Kent Well Ray, when I was a lad, we used transitional punctuation to denote a pause or continuation of thought; this semi-colon is an example.
Well actually...
I wish more people on the Internet had a vocabulary as good as yours.
All that to light a match with water? Thats like an all day process haha it was a good video though i learned somthing new today
That smoldering of the match also happens when you light a match in a vacuum chamber!
Logan Hessefort nope 😑
paul prince yes
The sheer acceleration of the molecules passing the match is what did it.
AKA, friction.
very cool
I was thinking the same
that's basically how activated charcoal is made.
i thought i'm watching periodic video for a moment
oldcowbb I love those videos and the guy that looks like Albert Einstein
I think you can also light a wooden stick without sulfur by a temperature of 180 degrees Celsius. But that's common sense.
A match doesn't require oxygen to ignite. The oxygen comes from the perchlorate
When he said "There's no oxygen in there", I felt smart for a few seconds thinking "Yes there is, it's just bonded with two hydrogen." Out of curiosity, isn't there oxygen normally dissolved in water? I would assume it's not nearly enough to sustain the reaction (and it's blowing too fast), but assuming the dissolved oxygen is still there, would it be enough to sustain the reaciton?
H2o
While the copper is an excellent conductor of heat, the air that surrounds it is not. As long as he isn't touching the match directly to the copper tube, I strongly doubt that the pipe would heat the air around it enough to auto-ignite the match.
You should've shown what happens if you place the match at the end without heating the coil.
Oxigen? I don't think the match head needs oxygen to ignite... the wood does, in order to burn. But isn't the head a pyrotechnic compound that has it's own oxygen, and would ignite in space?
Is it possible to light a wooden rod (without the chemical composition at the end of the match) with the steam?
Alexandre Gibon it would take a lot more energy to do so as the chemical composition of wood is much different from the phosphorus match head and has a much higher energy barrier.
Alexandre Gibon i
It was fun to watch but not so much for daily life and survival tips :)))) but I like new things :)))
when he goes to lite the first Bunsen he looks as if he is scared of it or something.
Ok! You really need to clean and organize that lab. It's messy!!
The ironic thing is that you need to use a match to light the Bunsen in the first place...
Could you get it hot enough to light a candle?
Just how many matches did he use to light one match?
if only there was an easier way to light matches
He didn't light the match with water (liquid H2O). He lit the match with steam (gaseous H2O).
Thanks Bryan! In which case... watch?v=digTC1Ne8Ug
Can you shoot that in slo-mo. A match just burns with no contact, i loved the way it started burning from one side.
no solid* contact, for all you haters.
That music though!
1:00 stick it in :3
So, he used a match to hear the water, used another match to heat the air hire bought to light a match? Hmmm, perhaps we just buy him a new box of matches
How do you know that the air is also being heated up and that this in fact lights the match???
Lol classic school boy error... not closing the air hole before lighting up a bunson burner