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title: Amazing Water Property – Starting Fire in Water — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/amazing-water-property-starting-fire-in-water/
date: 2014-01-09
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# Amazing Water Property – Starting Fire in Water

Astronauts on the ISS are experimenting with a form of water that has a strange property: it can help start fire. This fundamental physics investigation could have down-to-Earth benefits such as clean-burning municipal waste disposal and improved saltwater purification. Water is amazing, and if you haven’t seen “water the great mystery” you should but so is “Liquid Helium“.