Why didn't the flames from the burning HINDENBERG put themselves out?
Answer:
Hydrogen goes up.
Water goes down.
Hard to put out burning hydrogen with the water it makes, eh?
welll it was on fire so it cant just magically go out
The intense heat released when hydrogen is combusted vaporises the liquid water the instant it is made - hence hot steam rises and the source of fire dissapates the rising steam further it could not put it out.
who told you it makes water ?
Heh okay first off
apparently the main thing that was burning was the skin of the hindenberg. The skin (which was cotten) was apparently covered in powerded aluminum and iron oxide.which is thermite. Thermite burns really hot and really fast like 2000 f or something more than enough for the water not to do anything.
"OH THE HUMIDITY!"
I seem to recall watching a documentary recently that said that what was burning on the Hindenberg wasn't the hydrogen, it was the skin of the vessel, which has apparently highly flammable - I think they said this was ignited by a spark in a highly static area.
the water was in the form of stream which rose above the flames. The chemical reaction would occure above the hydrodgen where the oxigen from the air is.
Yes,It makes water at say 1000deg.C.so up it goes to be replaced by more oxygen (and hydrogen from poor old Hndnbrg).somewhere or other in the wide blue yonder it cooled down and maybe made a little cloud that spoiled somebody's picnic.An all round bad day.
Hydrogen is a gas which is lighter than air therefore it rises. However water that might have been created was not sufficient in quantity to put out the fire caused when hydrogen gas from each of the 16 huge gas bags exploded on board as the result of a small phospherous bomb that was placed inside one of the gas bags of the Hindenberg airship as it tried to dock at Chicago.
Therefore simple Physics demonstrates that one (hydrogen gas) goes up the other (water) comes down. Meaning that it is impossible for the little water that was created and then vapourised to have put out the fire.
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