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All - Please let me know if anyone out there has had any any
experience with this situation.
I have a PI who has a full beard (we are talking ZZ Top style beard
here). He is insistent on doing demos with flames - including fire
eating. Don't ask me what chemical principal that is
demonstrating. Yesterday he asked me what I thought about doing the
classic "money burning" demo where you dip a dollar in a 50/50
isopropanol/water mixture that shows how evaporation cools the money
and prevents the alcohol from burning it, only he wants to use his
beard instead of the money. I am not sure if he was serious or just
trying to get a response out of me.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to prevent this fellow from
burning his face off? In general, I would like to tell him that if
the beard stays, he cannot work with flames. Is that an option? It
is so long that he can actually tie it up and fold it in on itself,
but it is still hanging pretty low and could easily catch on fire
with a Bunsen burner.
Sammye
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