- Larisa: Luna, did you put this glass of water next to the objects that I was going to set on fire for a demonstration?
- Luna: Oh, sorry, I didn’t–
- Luna: ?
- Larisa: Challenge accepted!
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[0657] Challenging Task
└ posted on Monday, 9 February 2015, by Novil
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Is…is she going to set the glass of water on fire?
It can be done. Patrick has done it before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FB0aeb-TPs
@ Argondr:
Just add pure sodium.
@ Argondr:
You need fluorine gas or related compounds to do that, but it can be done.
The Real Challenge is Burning the Ice Cubes.
Hmm, as long as she doesn’t make an oil fire, I feel safe…-er.
She can electrolyze the water into Oxygen and Hydrogen and then burn it that way. There’s plenty of ways to burn water.
Ooooohhh, I see a kindred soul in Larissa here.
The actual challenge might be to find something that would set the glass AND the water on fire at the same time, without spattering them all around.
I can set pure water on fire!
I just need some wax, a couple of screws and a 9v battery – put them together in the right way, drop them in the water and hey presto the water starts splitting into hydrogen and oxygen: two very flammable gasses.
@ Autoskip:
Also when I wrote this comment there was only 4 comments – so I was sort of the first to point out what H2O is made of.
😛
This comic made me realize that I have an attraction to women wearing semi-rimless framed glasses. Yep, I’ll be that guy. Also 39 days to comic 666! Woohoo!
Oh, she’s got the fire fire fire, and she’s going to watch it burn burn burn
…
Also, she’s gonna set FIIIIIIIIIRE to the RAIN!
I feel like this is going to go beyond simply igniting water. Optimism: this somehow leads to helping with Luna’s problem. Pessimism: Larissa creates a flame so hot it causes the heat death of the universe…
Book Bails wrote:
I may be way off base here, but it looks like Larissa is trying to give Luna a sense of Self Worth… although the method may be…. onorthodox…. Let’s look to the end result!
And do any of you honestly think Larissa hasn’t already set water on fire in the past? I mean, C’MON!!!!
It’s actually been done before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNgLrzoIC-o
Giving Larissa a challenge? She got guts.
I’m not sure what it is going to lead up to but i am already laughing my ass off
Enter magnesium, stage left.
It’s going to be Sodium isn’t it? Or Potassium, teacher did that one in High School. Was impressive.
@ Jerry:
I recommend dioxygen diflouride.
By the time Larissa gets Luna fully educated she’s going to be the most badass demure little Latina in New Jersey. Pity the gangs . . . while you still have the chance.
I think I need to put Larisa on my top 10 favorite characters.
@ Van:
Potassium is a far superior choice.
@ Kellby Benson:
This explains what that does and how to make it in a pressure cooker. https://what-if.xkcd.com/40/
@ Book Bails:
That isn’t quite what the heat death of the universe is, unless that was a clever pun.
I know they do these way ahead of time, but I know we all want to see Luna go back to Camden and whip out a flamethrower.
“And when the truth dawns, it dawns in fire!”
Character: “Challenge accepted.”
Most dude-bros: “Now kiss!”
@ Tony:
CF3 aka Chlorine TriFlouride, sets fire to asbestos, wet sand… etc
I have no idea what is going on, and am rapidly approaching the zero fucks given,
I wonder what Larissa’s reaction will be if she ever finds out about this
Setting water on fire. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
@ Book Bails:
As a chemist and amateur astrophysicist I have to point out that creating heat would stave off the heat death of the universe, not provoke it. The heat death of the universe refers to what would happen when the average temperature in the universe falls to 0 K or absolute zero. At that time molecular and ionic bonds will no longer be able to sustain themselves and most _things_ will just fall apart. (Assuming I understood it correctly)
@ Klaus Thomsen:
The heat death of the universe is a concept based on the idea that the universe will eventually run out of energy. Or, bluntly put, the useful energy in the universe is always going down.
Fire and heat dissipation is a very good way to burn off a very large amount of useful energy into forms that .. well aren’t.
@ Tom:
Chlorine Pentaflouride – it’s liquid at room temp, unlike ClF3. Still a good idea to have running shoes though.
I love the shading of Larisa when she gets all… serious. 🙂
@ Gram91:
You mean, she’s not already?
Larisa’s awesome. Insane, but awesome.
….now kiss
Cæsium! Delicious cæsium! Although it will be less of a flame and more of a violent explosion, I can’t imagine Larisa will object.
ClF3, Chlorine Trifluoride like mentioned above. It can set fire to pretty much anything. Like… Concrete. Gravel. Asbestos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSoDW2-wrc
And i recommend checking out the other nasties humanity has come up with. Like Azidoazide Azide. C2N14 to you chemists. 😉
Oh dear. Has Larissa worked with those kinds of chemicals before? Stay Far away from her if she even Thinks about adding in phosphorous.
I love the fact that a lot of the comments are about how you can set water in fire, and that there’s enough substances that any one given isn’t repeated all over the page XD
On other note, I don’t know what’s Larissa’s plan, but I’m starting to think poor Luna won’t leave with her mind intact ^^U
Crestlinger wrote:
I would hope not, since O2F2 can apparently set fire to LIQUID METHANE
Man… I really don’t know if we should feel happy that Luna is being included and making friends… or just feel sorry for her. Feels like they’re piling on stress instead of comfort.
@ Tom:
I really like John Clark’s comment on the stuff in “Ignition!” (Read it if you can get your hands on a copy):
*will spontaneously combust
Now the remaining question is: Where will Larissa find a batch of ClF3?
BarGamer wrote:
Not too out of character for Larissa, except for the fact she has a boyfriend.
Yuko Hoon wrote:
Maybe that’s a good thing?Hinoron wrote:
Yes, but at least Luna’s being included in this stress, not being pushed around because of it. And she should have plenty to talk about with Sandra and cloud.
@ Argondr:
If she finds out how to create greek fire, devastation will soon follow….
“I choose to set this glass of water on fire. I choose to set this glass of water on fire afterwards, not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of my energies and skills, because that challenge is one that I am willing to accept, one I am unwilling to postpone, and one which I intend to win, and the others, too.“
😉
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride.php
@ Tom:
Chlorine Triflouride would be a good choice. That’ll make anything burn.
@ Moatl:
AND TO PROVE THE NAYSAYERS WRONG