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Fire Without Air: Burning magnesium inside a block of dry ice

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Declan Fleming shows you how to prepare and demonstrate burning magnesium in solid carbon dioxide (dry ice). This dramatic and beautiful demonstration shows that oxygen isn't always a prerequisite for fire and reveals carbon's place in the reactivity series.

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Ignition
Element
Science
Combustion
CarbonDioxide
Thermodynamics
Energy
Magnesium
Spectacle
Flame
Oxygen
Experiment
Dryice
Reaction
Physics
Burn
Chemistry
Heat
Fire
Demonstration

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