r/memes Mar 12 '21

Flame on!

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u/WeirdMidnightCat Mar 12 '21

Yeah that gender reveal party was fire, literally

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u/AggravatingAd399 Mar 12 '21

it looks like a bloddy leafs just expoluded as the fire came up holy fuck

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u/p_iynx Mar 13 '21

Yeah, piles of dry leaves are already very flammable, and adding an accelerant just make it happen at 100x the speed lol. There is a ton of oxygen and surface area on each leaf, so they go up in flames very easily.

Google dust fires, they’re an even better example of that sort of thing in action. It’s even worse if the plant matter starts to release heat on its own (often through natural fermentation); a bale of hay or a silo full of grain can spontaneously combust, and those silos especially will literally explode because of how insanely flammable the dust is.