In addition to the temperature difference, if an ember is shoved into something, the portion in contact is cut off from air and the burning rate slows/stops at the point of contact. Pyrotechnics like in sparklers have an oxidizer mixed in and will continue to burn even/especially with tight contact. Sparklers actually burn faster/hotter when compressed. Taping a whole bunch of sparklers tightly together becomes explosive.
Plus a lot of sparklers have a metal wire core that is efficient at transferring heat to skin. Whereas wood and charcoal are relatively insulating.
This is correct, and I appreciate the furthering of explaining why sparklers are deceptively dangerous.
People just assume its like a more familiar kind of fire and thus dramatically underestimate the danger.
Also I was going to mention the bomb thing but I decided not to, but uh yeah lol, its kind of wild that shit is legal at all, given that its pretty fucking easy to make a significantly dangerous explosive out of and, at least as far as I am aware, you basically buy all that shit with cash, unlike other types of chemicals which can be made into bombs which are pretty heavily monitored and regulated.
In addition to the temperature difference, if an ember is shoved into something, the portion in contact is cut off from air and the burning rate slows/stops at the point of contact. Pyrotechnics like in sparklers have an oxidizer mixed in and will continue to burn even/especially with tight contact. Sparklers actually burn faster/hotter when compressed. Taping a whole bunch of sparklers tightly together becomes explosive.
Plus a lot of sparklers have a metal wire core that is efficient at transferring heat to skin. Whereas wood and charcoal are relatively insulating.
This is correct, and I appreciate the furthering of explaining why sparklers are deceptively dangerous.
People just assume its like a more familiar kind of fire and thus dramatically underestimate the danger.
Also I was going to mention the bomb thing but I decided not to, but uh yeah lol, its kind of wild that shit is legal at all, given that its pretty fucking easy to make a significantly dangerous explosive out of and, at least as far as I am aware, you basically buy all that shit with cash, unlike other types of chemicals which can be made into bombs which are pretty heavily monitored and regulated.