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lemmy.ca

PSA: Do this with plastic jugs to reduce the risk of broken glass in your eye.

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piefed.social

are we sure that this "explosion" has even nearly enough energy to cause something like this?

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discuss.tchncs.de

If you think about the thermal stress caused by the heat in addition to the gas pressure, I think its fairly plausible.

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Exactly this. I'm 90% certain there's an old video out there of a science teacher exploding a glass jug in a classroom doing or trying to do this.

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When I discovered this in high school we called it a jam jar jet. We used isopropyl alcohol for the fuel.

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