Posted on 01/30/2014 9:18:27 PM PST by Mad Dawgg
to me like plastic that has been burnt. My wife thinks it smells like diesel...
I’m frustrated, I want to smell it...no snow here.
Mother earth may have gotten some silicone injections in her tukus— it’s all the rage.
Last few years there have been several volcanoes active, I wondered if there is some ash in the snow or something.
Things that make you go Hmmmmmm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3117575/posts
what say you now you disbelievers first geoengineered snow now BIG HEADED FISH!
In This Thread: Southerners who don’t know how snow works.
“Snow” on the ground is mostly air. This is why it’s such a good insulator when you build a survival “snow cave”. So when you apply a low-temp flame to it (such as a match or lighter), very little of the snow actually melts, the rest being protected by the air spaces trapped in the flakes. The “blackening” is the soot produced by the lighter/match collecting on the extensive surface area of the snow (which also acts as a radiator to further retard melting). The smell is either combustion byproducts trapped in the snow, or pollution.
Also, even if you melt the whole clump, you’re going to get a “lot less” water than you expect, again because snow is mostly air. One inch of rain equivalent produces over ten inches of snow. So a tiny handful like that is barely going to produce a teaspoon of water, maybe less depending on how “dry” the snow is.
All I know it is freaking me out so tell 'em to get their ashes out of here!
Also is right.
It takes fuel air and heat for complete combustion to occur.
The cold snow removes the heat and causes incomplete combustion hence the soot.
Lurking’
I’ll be checking tomorrow to see if your outdoor ice smells the same when burned. Thanks for the heads-up, this is interesting and a nice change from political assault.
...still waiting over here on the right...
???
If snow is mostly air, why is it so heavy to shovel? ;D
This was the best I’ve seen..but still
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-fake-snow-burning-snow.3026/
I didn’t get any blackening or odor.
Just no melting for the whole snow blob I brought in.
Threw you a curve there didn't I!
Now all you smoother talkers who are gettin all sciency go back and tell your Alien overlords we ain't buyin their BS no more!
(Unless of course that you know our Alien Overlords can burn me to a crisp with their orbiting gamma laser platforms or worse... then instead tell 'em I said "Hey Y'all and how's it goin'?" kay?thanxbyenow...)
That is the stuffing from a pillow....or something ....
It's not snow...lol
What does it taste like? Don’t eat the yellow stuff. And what happens when it is left in a warm room? Does it melt?
I live five miles South of the Gary/South Chicago Steel Mills.
We also have dozens of smaller industrial facilities and chemical plants.
We have rivers here that sometimes catch on fire. So the notion of snow that leaves a chemical residue is not a real shocker.
Mad Dawgg, you mentioned in an earlier post that you were told as a child that the white stuff tht falls from the sky is snow. Well when I was a child (over 60 years ago) I was told (rather sternly) not to try to eat that stuff.
Folks around here knew back then that it was full of crap. I can remember seeing snow that was laced with black flecks without having to take a butane lighter to it.
By the way, nobody around here has a rain barrel either.
Dangit! Y’all got me doing it.
Yes, it turned black, but I think it’s just because I used a butane lighter.
No, it didn’t melt, but I think that it’s because the liquid is absorbed into the snow, even at an angle.
And, I did taste it. Pretty nasty. My dog didn’t want to nose-dive into it tonight, either.
Thanks you for the link.
Weird, huh?
I’ll be SOOOOOO glad when the warm weather comes.
Hubby and I held our spoonful of snow upside down.
No drips.
Not sure how it “absorbed” whilst fighting gravity but what the heck.
It was better than watching That Metal Show reruns.
Hellifino.
If my dogs won’t eat it I’m sure not gonna try.
:D
It did eventually melt in the sink.
No it’s not.
Try lighting some fiberfill, once.
You won’t ever do it again.
;]
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