A red hot nickel ball on one, ten and fifty sheets of printer paper. Even with a little help a red hot nickel ball could not make it through 50 sheets of paper... SUBSCRIBE- shorturl.at/adk02 FACEBOOK- shorturl.at/ilrH2
Wrecklessletsplays :D Paper is more effective against heat if it is thick enough because it conducts very less heat. If you had a metal armor, the nickel ball would burn you through the metal because it conducts the heat better.
Everyone looking on from the side just sees this massive thing that rivals all of our weaponry on destructive range and this guy just standing there in a paper suit like he's just catching a football AND THE THING STOPS WHEN IT HITS HIM. Then later people ask him how he knew it would work and he just goes "RU-vid videos about a guy with a hot nickel ball and also rock-paper-scissors"
***** Imagine if the cops DID have guns that shot red hot nickel balls, though.It would be the force of small cannons shooting extremely hot metal at you. It would likely knock you down if it just hit the thick paper armor you have, but that's all it takes to get arrested. If it hit your skin, firstly you'd probably have a broken bone, secondly you'd have an instant third-degree burn, since that ball isn't going to bounce off of your squishy skin that quickly.
I keep telling myself not to watch anymore of these videos.. Then RU-vid suggests another one on the right side of my browser...and I just can't help myself... I might be an alchoholic
Its amazing how surprisingly resistant paper is to burning, when stacked. I had it explained to me why before, but forgot how it worked in detail. But i didn't think it would withstand THAT at the end.
Paper kinda becomes like sheets of ash when burned and since ash has already lost all the energy that can be take out of it through burning, it becomes a great isolator. For burning something you need 3 key components: Heat, fuel and oxygen. If any of these components is missing, you get no fire. So if you have burned some fuel and it starts to isolate oxygen from the rest of the mix, then you get no fire.
If you watch those who do large art glass pieces from white hot glass melted in a kiln, they use large wads of wet newspaper on their hands to shape the glass. It acts like an insulator and the charred area won't burn anymore so it won't get any thinner and fry their hands. Great demonstration!
Ok, if an incandescent ball of nickel can't burn through some paper, I should be allowed to throw an extinguished match in the trash without anyone trying to kill me.
One thing i find...odd. And before i say it, i know it would make paper expensive. What i'm wondering is why hasn't anyone by now made paper fire proof. I mean, we have plastics that shut fire down, we have textiles that shut fire down, we can set water on fire (unrelated, but still fun) but no chemical formula for the paper to become self extinguishable? Odd. You'd think with fires ravaging lives around the world that someone, somewhere would make something like this.
I know it would up the price but it's not like we are talking 10 to 60 up-pricing. A chemical fire retardant would not be that much more expensive. No. I've done some research since and i think it's for safety reasons. IE kids eating paper.
I think what happened is that the burned paper is still solid material, it just can't burn any more. Its also a good insulator. So if the burned material doesn't have anywhere to break off and fall to it just stays underneath the ball, and prevents contact with the rest of the paper underneath the layer of burned stuff.
