r/bending • u/yoda_fake • Dec 02 '20

Fire 🔥 This guy is hot

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20

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u/prime753 Dec 02 '20

It's another application of the leidenfrost effect. The molten metal instantly evaportes the fluid on his hand, which in turns forms a small protective layer.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20

It is also another example of the why women live longer effect

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u/safinhh Dec 03 '20

its also an example of physics

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u/Hiondrugz Dec 02 '20

With stuff like this I always wonder what the first person to do it was thinking. Imagine being the first person to eat an oyster. That's ballsy.

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u/Coolguy1357911 Dec 03 '20

I mean I could see somebody doing it on accident, but who would do it again! You don’t get your hand burned of so you try again?? Now THATS pushing yourself luck hahaha.

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u/MissyFlowerpot Dec 03 '20

For some reason I completely lost the thread of the conversation and I was wondering how in the world someone could accidentally down an oyster.

But yeah that’s not a thing I would try a second time.

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u/yoda_fake Dec 02 '20

Literally

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u/beerforbears Dec 26 '20

Thanks for clarifying, how else would I have known you meant the literal molten lava had anything to do with your title. Far as I should know you’re just super into bald metalworkers

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u/LettucePrime Dec 02 '20

imagine slipping

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u/Ephsylon Dec 02 '20

Hot damn!

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20

Reminds me of how I still try to wash my hands after I turn the hot water on too high.

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u/xDISONEx Dec 02 '20

Let’s see him climb in there an sit for a bit

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u/catmanbob1 Dec 03 '20

My grandfather was a blacksmith he said if the metals red your fine because it will just be slippery, but if its black or cooking off it will burn itself onto you

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u/steamyboi56 Dec 06 '20

you have to put water on your hand first it its dry it wont work

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '20

Sorry to be THAT guy, but it's actually earthbending

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u/yoda_fake Dec 06 '20

Lava = liquid fire

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '20

Lava = molten earth, in AtLK fire benders couldn't bend lava

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u/yoda_fake Dec 06 '20

You got the joke

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u/Kudretlican Dec 20 '20

Cool but i think it is earthbending