Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Exploding lava lamp
The Lava Lamp was invented by Craven Walker. It's a simple novelty: a 40w light bulb in the base provides light and heat. A waxy solid in a clear liquid is heated by the bulb and rises and falls through the liquid. Groovy.
But what happens if you heat the waxy solid to an even higher temperature? Philip Quinn decided to put his Lava Lamp on a hot stovetop and was killed by a shard of glass when the lamp exploded. In retrospect, it was pretty stupid thing to do but many of us have done stupid experiments like this and despite not thinking it through we've somehow survived mishap. Philip wasn't as lucky.
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