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Sun shining through bottle of water causes plane fire
Not heard of this one happening before:
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I have to say that I find this a little hard to believe. Based on this assumption, I shouldn't be holding a bottle of water whilst driving a car for fear of third degree burns???
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There is a story of it happening on a 767 many years ago, with the bottle causing the seat to smoulder, but not catch fire. Bottles are most definately not left on the seat now! (Although there are other reasons for that too).
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Sceptical
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Philip hit the nail on the head, water disburses light not focuses it. Sunlight hitting a bottle of water would actually act like a filter and weaken the intensity of the light.
As mentioned the plastic itself may be capable of causing this but again, the plastic is flat not convex so there is no real way of focusing the light to a fine enough point. The corrugated section on the bottle is convex, but too much so and again this would push the light in too many directions and not be focused enough. |
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