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Create Your Own Fire Snake  #Shorts

Create Your Own Fire Snake #Shorts



This is a fire snake. Don’t be scared, it’s mainly made of carbon and it doesn’t bite.

Here’s how you can create yours in five simple steps:
Step 1) Fill an old bowl with sand. Be careful! The sand must be dry.
Step 2) Soak the sand in lighter fluid.
Step 3) Mix 1 tbsp baking soda with 4 tbsp sugar.
Step 4) Pour the sugar/baking soda mixture into a pile on top of the sand.
Step 5) Finally, use a lighter to ignite the lighter fluid.

Perfect! Now you just need to wait for chemistry to do its job: it will create a fire snake that seems to come out directly from the sand.

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What If You Could Freeze a Hurricane?

What If You Could Freeze a Hurricane?



Has the weather ever ruined your plans? What if I told you I had an idea to stop hurricanes from wrecking your day? And that it involves liquid nitrogen. How exactly would liquid nitrogen stop a hurricane? How much of this icy cold substance would we need? And how would we pull this off?

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What If You Ate a Brick of Dry Ice?

What If You Ate a Brick of Dry Ice?

Dry ice is one of the coldest substances on Earth. This is what it does to a flower. And check out what it does to this action figure. Now, what would happen if you swallowed dry ice? What would it do to your skin? How much could you eat before it hurts you? And how would it affect your stomach?

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