Melting metal on a playing card

• Thomas B. Greenslade Jr ^[1]
  1. [1] Kenyon College

     Kenyon College

     Township of College, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 54, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 227-227
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Many of us are familiar with the demonstration of boiling water in a paper cup held over a candle or a Bunsen burner; the ignition temperature of paper is above the temperature of 100 °C at which water boils under standard conditions. A more dramatic demonstration is melting tin held in a playing card. This illustration is from Tissandier's book on scientific recreations.