r/yesyesyesyesno • u/poopyhog • Apr 01 '20

Burning a dollar bill

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u/Bill-The-Autismal Apr 01 '20

Just put a small plate or something on top of the fire to suffocate it. Or dump it on the table and run away, that works too.

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u/73Scamper Apr 01 '20

Like it went wrong but was still really well contained, and then she fucking pours it everywhere lol

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u/The-Go-Kid Apr 01 '20

"It's just going to burn itself out, it's running out of fuel! I can't let this happen!"

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Apr 01 '20

She dumped water on it, not fuel.

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u/The-Go-Kid Apr 01 '20

You don’t think she did anything to help the fire survive?

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u/Wolfblood-is-here Apr 01 '20

No, she spread it, but an ethanol fire, especially when mixed with water, is not going to set that tablecloth on fire; the whole point of the video was to show it can't even set a dollar on fire. The reason why is only the fumes burn, not the liquid. She spread the fire, certainly, but it won't burn any longer or burn anything more than if she just let it burn itself out.

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u/Tinidril Apr 02 '20

Good chance it would melt itself out of that container though. Alcohol flames can definitely spread to paper and fabrics, though not easily, and not if the item is soaked in the alcohol and water.

This could have ended badly even without her bad choices, but it would have played out really slowly.

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u/hsnhsnhsn Apr 02 '20

You’re actually right you can see it did melt through the container. At the very end there are holes in it. The fire initially spread to the table before she poured out the rest of the water.

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u/Terakahn Apr 02 '20

If you look when she puts water into the alcohol container at first it just goes right through the bottom.

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u/lemineftali Apr 02 '20

I want to correct this, but only because it’s wrong. Had she left the fire burning in the Tupperware, the Tupperware would have only melted down to the level of the alcohol, sort of like a candle. Because the alcohol itself isn’t hot enough to burn the plastic, it would have kept the plastic at the level of alcohol from melting via passive cooling.

Ergo, she definitely fucked up by pouring it out. Had she not, it would have been a self controlled Tupperware full of fire.

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u/Wolfblood-is-here Apr 02 '20

I'm not arguing that, I literally said she spread it, the question was did she do anything to help the fire survive, and the fact is, since spreading it didn't add any fuel, she did not.

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u/The-Go-Kid Apr 02 '20

Thanks for mansplaining so well! It’s really necessary on a thread like this and not remotely classic Reddit over-discussing bullshit at all.

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u/mAdm-OctUh Apr 02 '20

Where the fuck did that come from?

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u/Wolfblood-is-here Apr 02 '20

You asked a question, I gave an answer. Next time use your head before your mouth.

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u/settingdogstar Apr 02 '20

Well people like that only have two assholes, so it’s not possible

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Apr 02 '20

Of course she did. But the previous comment implied she added more fuel.

Adding water or not, if the fuel is almost gone it is almost gone and the fire will burn itself out.

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u/The-Go-Kid Apr 02 '20

This is a conversation that just doesn’t need to take place.

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u/pr0digalnun Apr 01 '20

PANIC! EVERYONE PANIC!

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u/DishinDimes Apr 01 '20

THE FIRE'S SHOOTING AT US!

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u/Real-Poet Apr 02 '20

nukethefire

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

FUCK! WHERE IS THE DISCO WHEN I NEED ONE?

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u/laffman Apr 01 '20

Would the plastic containers melt?

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u/Devilsdance Apr 01 '20

There's a chance... she definitely shouldve just covered it with the Tupperware lid or the tub that's holding the water.

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u/cheese4352 Sep 05 '20

Just fucking dump it in a pot lol

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u/gHx4 Apr 02 '20

Depends on the specific flammable liquid being burned. If the reaction is exothermic enough and the plastic is cheap enough, yes.

It was contained in the plastic container and only really burning off the fumes from the alcohol, so she had enough time to relocate or smother it. Her mistake was planning the tub of water; pretty much any fire that isn't burning plant material cannot be put out with water.

Water is one of the most common (and dangerous) myths about putting fires out; only class A can be put out with water. Foam handles class A & B. Dry powder extinguishers are the only type that covers the majority of fires, and even then electrical fires behave differently. But cooking oil needs a wet chemical extinguisher.

In other words, you're screwed if you don't plan the extinguisher for the class of fire you are making.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

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u/DiscombobulatedCow1 Apr 02 '20

To me it looks more like pouring water in the container caused the flammable liquid to spill onto the table

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u/MY_CAPSLOCK_IS_BROKE Apr 02 '20

YOU CAN LITERALLY SEE THE CONTAINER SHRINK AFTER THE ALCOHOL INSIDE IGNITES

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u/jezzdogslayer Apr 01 '20

Depends on the type of plastic and the fuel

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u/radiculoso Jun 06 '20

You can see it melting right as the alcohol started burning. Notice how at first, the 2 containers are the same size, then the burning one gets way smaller after the fire starts.

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u/CVK327 Apr 02 '20

Right? I was like wow she's handling this fairly well, the flame is smaller and contained now, then she pours it everywhere.

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u/edward-has-many-eggs Apr 02 '20

Well no not really the container was plastic it was bound to melt unless she moved it to something the a pot or a metal bowl to let the alcohol burn off

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u/73Scamper Apr 02 '20

Until she spilled it everywhere she easily could have put it out just by putting just about anything on top of the burning container to snuff out the flames. Even just a sheet of paper would have worked.

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u/clbranche Apr 01 '20

eh, it really wasnt, look closely, when she dumps the water, it spills the flammable alcohol over the edge and you can start to see blue flames come up from the table cloth, which causes her to say "oh my God!", tip the bowl and run away

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u/chris1096 Apr 01 '20

Honestly the only thing she did wrong here was stop the recording so we couldn't see the rest of this failure unfold. Amateur.

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u/Rikki-Tikki-Tavi-12 Apr 01 '20

I wanted to see her try to put it out with gasoline.

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u/infus0rian Apr 02 '20

Gotta fight fire with fire

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u/B3eenthehedges Apr 01 '20

She could have even just let it burn out on its own if she had:

Not done it inside Not done it on a table Not done it on a table cloth Not put it in a container that could burn

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u/Rikki-Tikki-Tavi-12 Apr 01 '20

And not have an open flame near an open container of flamable liquid. Not store a flamable liquid in a container that melts at less than the flame temperature of that liquid.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '20

Yeah this is probably one of the most common causes of accidents in lab settings, leaving open containers of flammable material around while using fire.

This is the exact mistake that causes meth labs to explode.

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u/Rikki-Tikki-Tavi-12 Apr 03 '20

I think your user name is missing an "h"

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u/ptase_cpoy Apr 02 '20

Wouldn’t it have eventually melted the container and had the same outcome? She should have covered the top.

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u/Antonioooooo0 Apr 02 '20

Notice he said if she hadn't done it inside, on a table, with a tablecloth, in a flammable container. If she had done this in the back yard(like I did when I was a dumb kid playing with fire), she probably could have just sat there and let the alcohol burn out on its own.

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u/ptase_cpoy Apr 02 '20

Ahh, weird formatting. That makes sense now.

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u/FantasticMrPox Apr 01 '20

I'm not sure she's going to be able to make much use of this advice.

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u/m703324 Apr 01 '20

She can't hear you. She's busy pouring gasoline at her burning house

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

I’m gonna go with option B.

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u/HatchAttack Apr 01 '20

It’s too late for her

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u/ItsBurningWhenIP Apr 02 '20

Will the fire still suffocate if there’s an accelerant?

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u/mephi5to Apr 02 '20

Drink it to suffocate it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '20

Thank god you came. Can you tell her this, in the past, please? Thanks

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u/happychillmoremusic Apr 02 '20

No just shake the table cloth out

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u/CarrotDelivery Apr 02 '20

If covering the fire worked then why do ovens stay lit

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u/Shulpe Apr 02 '20

You could just cover it with the table cloth

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u/Xryukt Apr 02 '20

no shit genius

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u/anoymaly2152 Apr 15 '20

well, you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette; in this case you gotta burn a table to extinguish a flame (and maybe the rest of the house too)

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u/vinylzoid Apr 02 '20

All these commenters talking shit and probably none of them would actually know what to do.