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Combustion
Elizabeth Blackstock
Setting fire to things isn’t in and of itself science. But if you record it using schlieren photography at 10,000 frames per second — as in this video of laser-ignited methane — then it’s getting closer.
Most of us experience combustion, a chemical process where a fuel combines with oxygen to produce heat and light, in the form of a fire where both the fuel and ignition source are well known.
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