• teslekova@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I’m sorry, but your understanding of physics is incorrect. Water has a very high heat capacity. A tear gas canister is made of thin metal. It won’t flash more than a few drops of that bottle of water to steam before cooling down.

    Also, if it did, traffic cones aren’t nailed down, are they? It would explode out the sides.

    Thirdly, I have personally seen people with gloves grab tear gas canisters and throw em back. They don’t keep hold of them for very long, and their gloves aren’t damaged.

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      Water has a very high heat capacity. A tear gas canister is made of thin metal. It won’t flash more than a few drops of that bottle of water to steam before cooling down.

      Congrats, this is the dumbest shit I’ve read in a fair bit.

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        Think about your oven, turned up to 500 degrees. You put a cast iron pan on one rack, and a 10x10-inch sheet of aluminum foil on another rack. While they heat up, fill two sinks halfway with water. Pull the pan out of the oven and throw it in a sink. Pull the sheet of aluminum foil out and throw it in the other sink. Which produces more steam?

        The pan and foil were both the same temperature, 500 degrees, but one had more heat capacity than the other.

        • Laurel Raven@lemmy.zip
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          I mean, hell, I’ve pulled aluminum foil out of an oven and it’s safe to handle without protection in seconds of coming out