Aug 13 2020 25 mins 4
#056 Seriously. What is fire? This week Melissa and Jam hop out of the frying pan. What are those warm orange wisps? We all sort of know what fire is but also, do we? It's hot, it can be good, it can be bad. But why does it look like that? And what really IS it? Let's try to find out Like the show? Buy us a coffee to help keep our show going AND free. Want to start your own podcast? Use Transistor and you'll have the best podcast platform available. We use it and we are totally in love with it. References from this episode https://unto.com/beirut https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/05/beirut-explosion-how-help-victims-lebanon/3300822001/ https://mypages.iit.edu/~smart/pawebar/lesson3.html https://www.chem.fsu.edu/chemlab/chm1020c/Lecture%207/01.php https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00333 https://www.sbu.edu/docs/default-source/life-at-sbu-documents/chemistry-of-a-fire.pdf?sfvrsn=0 https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Ammonium-nitrate#section=Boiling-Point https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-ammonium-nitrate-the-chemical-that-exploded-in-beirut/ https://www.cisa.gov/an-security-statutes-and-regulations https://www.cisa.gov/ammonium-nitrate-security-program https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R43070.pdf https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/08/03/congress-pushes-rules-explosive-fertilizer/31075955/ Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife. Email us at [email protected] And check out our chill, simple little website at https://chemforyourlife.transistor.fm/ And seriously, we love using Transistor. Check it out to be sure your podcast makes a bang. ★ Support this podcast ★
