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The Mysterious ‘Blue Whirl’ Flame Is Actually 3 Different Flames Combined – ScienceAlert
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have cultivated a close relationship with fire. But for all our fascination and intimacy, both with its dangers and its uses, fire can still stun us with something we’ve never seen before.
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have cultivated a close relationship with fire. But for all our fascination and intimacy, both with its dangers and its uses, fire can still stun us with something we’ve never seen before.
The blue whirl flame was discovered quite by accident just a few years ago. Scientists were studying a particularly dangerous type of flame – the whirls that, in wildfires, turn into terrifying fire tornadoes that wreak disaster, but that could be harnessed to genera…
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