Re: Fire (pine knots)
- From: Rich Travsky <traRvEsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:55:59 -0600
Mario Petrinovich wrote:
Rich Travsky:
Mario Petrinovich:
Pine knots are full of resin. It wouldn't be hard tu imagine a
monkey breaking off a branch of pine, exposing resin to the sun. If that
monkey was in water, the sun can magnify through water drops, and ignite
resin. -- Mario
"in water"?
Let me see if I visualize this as you do:
Sun -> water -> branch with resin
So, the branch is under water? And it's supposed to ignite?
Visualize a monkey that was in water before he came to the branch
(or to the pine).
So, he's soaking wet???
The similar way the great fire after dry season in savanna ignites.
After the first shower of wet season, the fire in savanna ignites. You have
highly combustable dry grass (grass is too dry to be affected by only one
light shower), you have water drops (from the first shower), and the next
day after the shower you have still strong sun. Since you have billions of
dry grass, and billions of water drops, fire easily ignites. -- Mario
The monkey is supposed to hold very still for whatever amount of time it
takes to ignite the branch with the resin?
.
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