Shock diamonds in rocket engine exhaust. Shock diamonds are a formation of standing wave patterns that appears in the supersonic exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system
This whole âtrust Tumblr blindlyâ thing is eventually going to kill someone, as I became pointedly aware of on one occasion I was making fun of how poorly a particular bleach-based drain declogger was working on my sink and got a chorus of really dangerously misinformed people telling me to pour vinegar in after it because all cute little cool kid diy home care blogs theyâre following talk about vinegar like it itâs the big secret the cleaning companies donât want you to know.
And I cringed knowing that someday, some Well Actually expert who read a blog article once is going to give that advice to someone who unfortunately didnât take high school chemistry and isnât aware that MIXING VINEGAR AND BLEACH MAKES CHLORINE GAS.
holy fucking jesus tits reblog to save a life
OK I actually got a full on A* for GCSE Chemistry and if I ever knew this Iâve forgotten it. Seriously reblog this.
Also donât use bleach to clean up if your cat pees outside the littlerbox (or urine in general for that matter, species doesnât really matter here I think). I did that in a small space and it took me a bit of coughing and wheezing and wanting to tear my eyes out before I went, âwait, fuck, I just gassed myselfâ.
Be aware of the chemicals you are using even if they are natural cleaners.
Plasma in a syringe. The small amount of air already in the syringe is what becomes the plasma when supplied with energy via electric current and provided with a sufficiently low pressure environment. Said by Naf5000 in this thread. More science posts here: sixpenceee.com/tagged/science
This liquid is boiling and freezing simultaneously because itâs reaching its âtriple point,â which is the temperature and pressure at which three phases of a substance (gas, liquid, and solid) co-exist in equilibrium. Source
Itâs the most ironic of morning weather forecasts: âWatch out for black ice on your morning commute.â You canât watch out for black ice, Mr. Meteorologist. Itâs nearly impossible to see. It often disguises itself as an innocent puddle of water on the road, luring innocent drivers into complacency. Then they drive across it at speed, lose all traction and spin straight off the side off a cliff. The car tumbles end over end to the bottom of a deep ravine, where it explodes into a ball of flame at least six stories high. But wait! The driver is hanging on to the side of the cliff by his fingertips!
Knowing how to react (or not react, as the case may be) when you drive across a patch of black ice is practical; but if youâve ever wondered what this stuff is, how it forms, and what makes it so dangerous, weâre here to help.
Knowing how to react (or not react, as the case may be) when you drive across a patch of black ice is practical; but if youâve ever wondered what this stuff is, how it forms, and what makes it so dangerous, weâre here to help.
Donât do this. Ever. Just donât. Unless you really donât value your eyebrows or skin. Or house.
PSA: if you have a grease fire, smother it. Literally, if you can safely, put a lid on it and let it burn all the oxygen out. If you canât, call the fire dept. But for the love of God, donât do this. You body, your house, and the fire department will thank you.
the drum is filled with hot steam and then sprayed with cold water. the pressure on the outside of the drum is far more than inside. the pressures try to maintain and find balance taking the drum as a casualty.
âOh FUCK thatâs cold!â
when youre in the shower and someone flushes the toilet
My Chemistry teacher did this the first day of class with a coke can, a hotplate, and a basin of water. I have never forgotten the scientific principles behind it, and hereâs why.
There were 20-something of us in the classroom, all dying of sleep deprivation since it was the first day back to school, first class of the day. Mr. Moses was that teacher you werenât sure how to deal with. I mean, the manâs name was Noah Eugene Moses, for starters. He drove a Harley to school, but also drove the bus. He had giant cokebottle glasses and a doofy mustache with shaggy ex-Beatles hair. He always wore suspenders and a grease-stained t-shirt because he had a potbelly and taught the shop/electrical classes. He wasnât even really lecturing; he was throwing in tidbits of the syllabus in the midst of bad jokes and fun stories. We were all a bit nervous, because none of us had taken a class from him before, but his tests were legendaryânobody had ever made it out with an A (until I did, but thatâs another story for another time and involves a really awesome bet and some hair cutting scissors).
Well, as we were fighting to stay awake, and attempting to take notes of whatever he was talking about, he was pacing around the room from here to there, straightening things and moving stuff. He was very scatterbrained, and it was easy to tell from how he kept forgetting where he put his coke. Turns out, that was just a ruse. He had the can filled with just a tiny bit of water, and the things he was moving around were stacks of papers and books hiding the hot plate and water basin. So he set his coke can down onto the hot plate, continued talking loudly enough so we wouldnât hear the water boiling, and then knocked it over really fast into the water basin.
BANG!!!!!!!!
Three girls fell out of their seats, one dude swore so violently Iâm pretty sure the devil himself cringed, everyone at least jumped and screamed, and I actually broke my pen in half.
See, with rapid decompression comes a vacuum, and with a vacuum comes a rushing of air that creates a massive sound. Think âthunderâ. Thatâs the same principle behind it. His little tiny coke can of steam into a bucket of ice water, and we had a bang so loud the band teacher came in from across the hall to see âwhat was exploding today.â To which Mr. Moses responded, âNothing, it imploded. Explosions are chapter 3.â
And thatâs when I knew it was going to be the best class ever.