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Did a hot car experiment.
Decided to see how hot it got in my car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_odjdVLbTPo After seeing the results, perhaps I should see if I can boil water in my car. |
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I never realized, until now, that the temperature inside a car in the summer with the windows closed can reach anywhere near, let alone exceed, 180 degrees Fahrenheit. This should serve as a stern warning, not to be ignored under any circumstances, never to leave anything that can melt inside your car in hot weather; needless to say, this also applies to leaving babies and children, not to mention animals, in cars with the windows closed and no air conditioning. The latter is illegal in the US, as it is, respectively, a form of child and animal endangerment. BTW, this warning also applies to leaving animals, children or anything that can melt in a hot car anywhere in the US. Florida is not the only state in which cars can reach dangerously high interior temperatures with no AC and the windows closed; this is a potential danger anywhere. For example, I live in northeastern Ohio, which just went through a hot spell (and still is: the forecast is for temperatures in the 90s for much of the rest of the summer) during which the air temperature reached 90+ degrees Fahrenheit. This is just the outside air temperature; inside a car, with the windows wound up and the AC off or inoperative, the interior temperature can reach close to 180 degrees (as in VK member lnx64's experiment). This, of course, will kill animals and young children in very short order, by means of dehydration.
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The temperature reached way more than 180F in my video. It reached 205F. It's not even the hottest day.
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That would boil water where I live. At 5,280 I think its around 203 °F, and I'm closer to 5,400. Dashboard ramen, anyone? Last edited by SpaceAge; 07-12-2017 at 10:43 PM. |
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One thing I'll never miss from the time I lived in Florida....Burning myself on the metal when trying to buckle up...Blue car + black interior in Florida = oven.
I'd imagine if you set a cup of water with a magnifying glass on it in there when you filmed that, that boiling would occur.
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Me either, but some people are wrong so often one can run out of energy to correct them. You touch on both variables that affect boiling point: temp and atmospheric pressure....Two things Jeff probably don't know: one can boil water at normal room temp if you get the pressure right, and there is a Triple Point (pressure/temp combo) where H2O is simultaneously stable in solid (ice), Liquid, and gaseous (steam/boiling) states....It is really cool looking if you ever see a picture.
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I thought summer where I am is bad but that's legitimately terrifying. Anything above about 12 Celsius is too much for me. At 12 below I would be in my element. |
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