I remember seeing this video and it "scaring" me because of how invisible that fire is. It seems like nightmare fuel to be burning from a fire you can't see.
What sucks is that with fuels that burn with a noticeable flame also often give off so much smoke that you can't see anything except a thick black cloud of smoke. I wonder if there's a happy medium fuel or mixture where there's visible flames but not a thick cloud of smoke.
@@shadowprince4482 That "thick black" is what's making the fire visible to begin with. The reason something like wood has a visible flame is because of the "extra" carbons in a cellulose molecule end up free (soot) in the flame, where it can incandesce. Methanol doesn't do this because it has only a single carbon atom, which is never "free"... It is converted directly to carbon dioxide and as such there is nothing to incandesce, as CO2 is a gas. This is why a relatively cool object placed in a luminescent flame will get a layer of soot on it. That soot would have burned off, but things got too cool too quick and the carbon comes crashing out of the reaction. This cannot happen with methanol.
@@MadScientist267 I never really knew about "extra carbons" before. I knew that things could burn not fully but never thought of the idea of extra. I'm guessing extra just means any carbon atoms that get left out of combustion.
@@mrkimble3134 There are all kinds of horrifying possibilities. Nerve agents are incredibly dangerous (and awful) but likely could only be used by nations, not individuals. Chlorine gas (famous WW1 chemical weapon) is laughably easy to create with household chemicals. Something like compound 1080 could kill tens of thousands, or more, if it were introduced to a water supply system. It's odorless, tasteless, and if a person ate just one gram they'll die. 10lbs would be enough to kill 5000 people and this is a common rodenticide with a relatively simple chemical structure.
You can see it, you just have to get up close to it, which is a really,really bad idea. It’s just in day light much harder to see and impossible with a long lease camera
Man I'll never forget that f1 driver (I forgot his name though lmfao) who spent several seconds on fire with guys with fire extinguishers next to him without realizing he was burning alive (the suit did its job and all that but still)
What kinda stupid is this? "Nobody *believes* you"? Ain't like you're gonna be standing there just reciting a bedtime story lol The screaming will make it believable... Ugh 🙄
@@swagoverload1343 Wow. That's about the most ignorant fucking statement I've ever seen. So let me get this straight. You're gonna just stand there and watch as someone burns to death because you can't *see* the fire, and just assume they're insane instead of oh I dunno... *CHECKING IT OUT?* God DAMN if this new breed of idiot isn't all but perfected at this point. You "people" disgust me. Quotes because you don't deserve the oxygen that keeps you from just being a pile of elements. 🙄
Houve um tempo em que no Brasil foi usado o metanol como combustível para carros. Por aqui existem profissionais denominados frentistas que abastecem o carro para você. Nessa época, diversos incêndios aconteceram com esses profissionais e muitas das vezes as pessoas que viam não acreditavam que a pessoa que estava literalmente rolando no chão estivesse realmente com algum problema, uma vez que a chama é praticamente invisível à luz do dia. Pelo menos foi isso que o meu professor de química disse na aula de química orgânica. O Brasil não é para amadores.
Nunca foi usado metanol para abastecer carros no Brasil, uma única vez aconteceu na fórmula 1, e foi o cara do pit stop que pegou fogo nele e não dava pra ver as chamas
Metanol nunca foi utilizado como combustível para carros no Brasil, até porque ele é preparado através da fermentação de beterraba, o que é inviável aqui. O metanol foi adotado nos Estados Unidos por algum período de tempo como combustível principalmente para carros de corrida pelo seu alto desempenho e eficiência. Seu uso foi suspenso após algum tempo devido à alguns acidentes que ocorreram envolvendo a ignição acidental de metanol ou derrames acidentais de metanol, o que resultaram em incêndios mortais invisíveis.
Methanol fires can also be known by the congreation of Drag racing and nitro RC car enthusiasts drawn to the smell of burning methanol, even though the smell of combustion of methanol is very subtle.
and they used this fuel additive in high performance race cars and accidents that resulted in fires have occurred and even with water being dumped on you the flames my not be out
Apparently it’s soluble in water. Isn’t it possible to just add small amounts of a substance that gives colour to flame. Like how natural gas gets it’s odour.
There are some dyes that you can put into Methanol to help give it some color. Some top end lubes have a dye in them that you can mix into methanol to give it a color.
You can add it to various chemicals that make fire change color, in order to give the fire a more vibrant color. For example, boric acid burns with a green flame. But if you add methanol to it, chances are, the boric acid will burn a much more vibrant shade of green.
i had a profi driver friend and we often went to on friendly-drives with him to compete .. we always had his crew with us and one time a guy started screaming "extinguish me i am on fire" .. everyone laughed until few of us run towards him to help, one other guy was fireman and back in the day i was "free fireman"? Dont know the word, you could be with firemen and in fire station, doing the training and stuff in your free time. Its really scary stuff. Saw few other videos from racing when something like this happened too and people even touched him and immediately, in 0,1s they caught on fire too and no one knew what is happening. That boggled my mind .. how can you work with it and not know what it does, how it works etc.
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