VIDEO: THE AWESOME CHEMISTRY IN LIGHTING A MATCH

The Chemistry Involved in Lighting a Match Is Surprisingly Awesome
By George Dvorsky, Gizmodo, 23 February 2016.

Many of you may remember this slow motion video from a little over a year ago. The American Chemical Society has now taken this footage - shot at an astounding 4,000 frames per second - to explain what’s actually happening at the molecular level when a match is struck.

Incredibly, it took the ACS nearly a minute and a half to describe what happens in just one-tenth of a second. As the video rightly points out, “chemistry is fast.”

[Source: Gizmodo.]