Children produce balls of fire using flour
- 8 years ago
A cool video has emerged of children creating balls of fire by blowing flour onto a gas flame.
In the footage, shot on Monday by science teacher Jacob Stirckling in New South Wales, Australia, Jacob's two children create the fire balls during a photoshoot for the 'Make Science Fun @ home' book which will be released in November.
"Due to the high surface area, the flour is very flammable and bursts into a large fire ball," Jacob explained online.
"Combustion of this kind has been responsible for many industrial fires and explosions involving dust from coal or flour."
"Silos are built with a special blast door so that the entire building doesn't explode in case of an incident of this nature," he added.
In the footage, shot on Monday by science teacher Jacob Stirckling in New South Wales, Australia, Jacob's two children create the fire balls during a photoshoot for the 'Make Science Fun @ home' book which will be released in November.
"Due to the high surface area, the flour is very flammable and bursts into a large fire ball," Jacob explained online.
"Combustion of this kind has been responsible for many industrial fires and explosions involving dust from coal or flour."
"Silos are built with a special blast door so that the entire building doesn't explode in case of an incident of this nature," he added.