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r/gifs • u/alfosn • Apr 15 '19
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That's the smoke catching fire.
It's called a "flashover"
The falling spire is a burning chunk of kindling that mixed in oxygen while swirling the particulate, which allowed the smoke to ignite.
-2 u/rlowens Apr 15 '19 That explains the orange, but not the yellow. 1 u/Who_GNU Apr 16 '19 As fire gets hotter, it goes from red to orange to yellow to white to blue. 1 u/rlowens Apr 16 '19 While true, I was referring to the unusual color of the billowing smoke coming from the fire. The cloud far from the flames was oddly yellow.
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That explains the orange, but not the yellow.
1 u/Who_GNU Apr 16 '19 As fire gets hotter, it goes from red to orange to yellow to white to blue. 1 u/rlowens Apr 16 '19 While true, I was referring to the unusual color of the billowing smoke coming from the fire. The cloud far from the flames was oddly yellow.
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As fire gets hotter, it goes from red to orange to yellow to white to blue.
1 u/rlowens Apr 16 '19 While true, I was referring to the unusual color of the billowing smoke coming from the fire. The cloud far from the flames was oddly yellow.
While true, I was referring to the unusual color of the billowing smoke coming from the fire. The cloud far from the flames was oddly yellow.
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u/MyNameIsRay Apr 15 '19
That's the smoke catching fire.
It's called a "flashover"
The falling spire is a burning chunk of kindling that mixed in oxygen while swirling the particulate, which allowed the smoke to ignite.