Water bottle in summer..explosive mine
It seems that the most common heat savior this summer, is preparing to explode in and out of your body with various damage and damage. A study indicated that leaving a bottle of water on a hot summer day, may lead to ominous consequences as plastic can act as a lens, focusing the light into a beam High-energy and potentially concentrated enough to burn items such as car seat mats.
The administration of the American Electricity Company of Idaho released a video clip depicting a water bottle burning two holes in a car seat last summer. And this year, on the occasion of the FIFA World Cup, a Russian water company has designed football-shaped water bottles. In a video posted by Fontanka Ru, the bottles appear to be footballs, focusing the light so much that they ignite a matchbox and burn a hole in the wooden floors.
"Light is made up of many photons, which are subatomic particles, that move in a straight line," Odile Madden, a materials scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles, told Live Science.
“Microscopic or spectacle lenses direct the photons so that they converge at a certain point. This can be used to see any objects better, as it focuses a large amount of light, which generates energy that can burn flammable materials.”
Even after sunlight passes through a car window, it hits the seat with about 600 watts per square meter of energy, says Michael Doughty, a chemist at GCI who is involved in Professor Madden's research under GCI's Modern and Contemporary Art Research Initiative. That is, the same amount of energy from a small electric heater - but focused on a small point less than a millimeter. Seconds of focused sunlight can easily heat up vinyl, which makes car seat upholstery, to its decomposition temperature, causing it to burn.