I totally agree with you on the heat, the main problem I see is that if there’s any light in that room the flame wouldn’t be visible.
Am I the only one here who used to light hand sanitizer on fire for shits and giggles?
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ngdev@lemmy.zip 2 days agoyou’re completely wrong
also hand sanitizer has ethanol which can burn at a pretty high temperature, and it is likely a gel hand sanitizer. so this dude allegedly punched his bully with a fistful of pseudo-napalm. id wager third degree burns are an extremely believable outcome
0ops@piefed.zip 2 days ago
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 days ago
I have a party trick where I light my hand on fire and transfer the fire between shapes on a surface
It’s not that hot, and it’s super easy to light and put out. It’s still, you know, fire, but panicked flailing is enough to put it out
Sure, you could get third degree burns from it, but only if you just let it sit there. If you tried to wipe it off or smack it out, which I think is the natural human reaction, it would just go out, possibly flinging little drops of fire around to get similar treatment
If anything, it’s the nerf form of napalm…
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah I’ve played with fire for years after being taught how to do it safely. Idk about the stickiness aspect of hand sanitizer but isopropyl alcohol is safe enough that I can use it to light my arm on fire, though a thin layer is always used. You don’t want it to last more than a few seconds or it will risk a mild first degree burn
ngdev@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
really? thats neat. wonder how itd turn out with ethanol tho lol ive seen it burn circles in carpet pretty quick
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Carpet wants to be on fire, it’s a bunch of spread fibers. Skin doesn’t want to catch fire. I think ethanol is hotter or less evaporative, but not er visit bad