Flames

Fire - an amazing phenomenon. It can act as a savior, and can destroy all life. It would seem that man for a long time to tame it, but the fire still carries a lot of secrets.

a small review.





1 Fire Barber

Ever since the days of Cleopatra used fire as a tool of the hairdresser - the queen, for example, shortened their hair. Quite popular "haircut with fire" is now. It was found that the fire strengthens the hair and removes them from breakage. He revived the ancient tradition of the Japanese Hasegawa, becoming the first «fire cut» specialist. In 1976, he was a little shocked by their customers, starting to cut their hair with a metal comb and a gas burner. Hasegawa argues that the fiery haircut can cope with the problem of split ends, as the fire simply "solders" them. But there is a more extreme way haircut by fire. As Flint prospirtovannye Chinese use two sticks, which ignited a dedicated strand of hair. However, the need to comply with one condition - the length of the hair should be no shorter than 35 centimeters, or specialist does not have time they just extinguish. It is difficult to imagine what must have confidence in the hairdresser, to allow him to set fire to their own hair. Beauty requires sacrifice indeed.



2 Killer Dinosaurs

According to the official version after the fall of a giant meteorite 65 million years ago, rising in the atmosphere layer of dust for decades to hide the planet from the sun, which eventually led to global cooling. This is called the cause of death of the dinosaurs and many species of living organisms. However, chemists from the University of Chicago have discovered a huge amount of soot deposits corresponding to the fall of the meteorite. This is the result of huge fires that raged once on Earth. The incredible power of the heat energy that is released as a result of falling space body, and the formation of combustible gases resulted in a fire on a planetary scale. The scientist Louis Alvarez likened the disaster to the possible consequences of a nuclear war. For this version of the dinosaurs did not die of cold and hunger, but simply burned. Firestorm literally burned all life on the planet, and came the fires, climate change merely completed begun.



3 Fire-grass

In Russia grows wonderful plant - white fraxinella. If the hot June afternoon to him to bring a lighted match, then immediately arises a blue flame: it briefly envelop the flower and then quickly disappear. It burned emitted zhelёzkami essential oils, which are due to the content of anethole and methyl chavicol have a sharp and unpleasant smell. The oils are very toxic and even from a distance can lead to burns. Sometimes this long bush can ignite itself if the direct rays of the sun heated to the required temperature. Background burning yasentsa so low that the flower remains intact. No wonder it is called "Burning Bush».



4 Diamonds from the fire

As you know, the diamonds is not nothing but a charcoal affected by crystallization over millions of years. But scientists all the time concerned with the question whether it is possible to reduce the amount of time to get a gem? And recently, it has been found that during the burning of a candle flame to its arises 1, 5 million diamond nanoparticles (for comparison corresponds to one nanoparticle size from 1 to 100 nanometers, with one nanometer is one-billionth of a meter). However, their life is short-lived, they immediately burned, turning into carbon dioxide. The critical temperature for diamond 800 ° C, above which it begins to lose its crystalline structure. Scientists believe that in the future it will be possible to establish the production of diamonds from the fire, but with the current level of technology that is not possible.



5 Taming plasma

Ancient philosophers believed that the world consists of four elements - earth, water, air and fire. This corresponds to the four states of matter - solid, liquid, gas and plasma. The latter is often equated to the fire, but someone calls her the electrical conductivity of a gas or a special state of matter, formed at very high temperatures. The unique properties of plasma is still poorly understood, but the modern view of it at 99, 9% is the universe - it is neither more nor less, building material Galaxies! In nature, the plasma can be observed in the form of a fireball. Those who met with this phenomenon will never forget. For example, the American Gina Winchester talks as "plucked out of the wall itself fireball, watching every move that would attack and injure." The Swiss physicist Hans Kari Wuhrer collecting dossiers on fireballs suggests quasi-rationality plasma substance and encourages the scientific world to study the intellectual component of this phenomenon. At midnight on May 27, 1995 Boston residents have witnessed a striking and rare spectacle as of low clouds started to separate and fall intermittent rays of light, which after 15 minutes gave way to a cold rain and blinding lightning. This phenomenon Hans Vyurner calls "rain of fire", which has the same nature as the fireball, or aurora borealis. He does not recommend to anyone to be under the plasma dripping from the sky. It is harmless at first glance, such a phenomenon constitutes a potential difference, in comparison with which the electric arc is just burning match!

6 Holy Fire

Every year at Easter in the Holy Sepulchre there is a phenomenon that causes debate and to this day - the descent of the Holy Fire. Most recently, Russian scientists without official permission failed to conduct an experiment during the Easter service. Secretly installed in the Temple of equipment fixed electric charges incurred at the time of the Holy Fire. According to physicist Andrei Volkov power of comparable domestic welding machine. But to explain this phenomenon the researcher could not. "If you ask me as a scientist - or was not (a miracle), I say: I do not know" - he said. In addition to the divine descent of the Holy Fire has another feature - the first few minutes it does not burn. Some scientists call this phenomenon is not a miracle, but "cold fire", which is used in pyrotechnics. For example, the flame arising from a mixture of ethyl alcohol, boric acid, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid has precisely such cold properties. While acid burn, the skin completely insensitive to the fire, but when his turn comes to alcohol, it may be burned.
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