Science Saturday

[featherynscale]

Today's experiment:
What burns when you touch it to an easy-light charcoal incense burner briquette?

Results:

Lights on fire:
- A match

Doesn't light on fire:
- Raffia
- Tissue paper (2-ply)
- Tissue paper (1-ply)
- Newsprint
- A q-tip
- Vodka (80 proof)
- Whisky (86 proof)
- Rubbing alcohol (at this point, we gave up on the alcohol line of pursuit)
- triadruid's beard

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Special bonus finding: Winter sucks, snow sucks, and I am tired of being cold.
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Comments

Re: Conclusion

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Incense was tried later, and the result was much the same: smolders/glows like incense should, but there's no initial flare of flame on the tip.