Posts Tagged ‘fire’
Funny foreign language fire
Posted in Funnyon Nov 18, 2008
I found this recent BYU police beat amusing:
Nov. 10: Students in Foreign Language Student Residence called in a fire in their apartment. One student ran the automatic cleaning cycle on the oven without realizing that another had left a rag in the oven. The apartment received only minor smoke damage.
Do you know how to say, “Don’t turn on the oven clean cycle, I left a rag in the oven!” in Chinese? I doubt that these foreign language learners did either.
- No Comments
- Tags: fire, police beat
Fun with IPA
Posted in Adventureson May 14, 2006
Last Thursday we conducted a science experiment. We had three different concentrations of IPA, 70%, 91%, and one unknown, because it wasn’t marked on the bottle, possibly meaning that it was close to 100%. I won’t say here exactly what IPA is, but a carefully crafted Google acronym search might provide clues.
We put two tablespoons of each concentration in identical bowls, and lit them all similarly with matches. We found the 91% and the 100% lit very easily, with the 70% concentration of IPA being a little more hesitant in igniting.
The flame from the bowl containing the 100% IPA was the highest, followed narrowly by the 91% IPA. The bowl containing the 70% IPA had a considerably smaller flame.
The bowl containing 70% IPA burnt out first, even though there was still liquid left in the bowl. The 100% and 91% bowls lasted considerably longer, although the 91% lasted just barely longer than the 100% bowl. Both the 100% and 91% bowls were dry after the flame extinguished.
- No Comments
- Tags: fire, Photos, Science
Status Updates
- appspot.com domain) for free.
Recent Comments