• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Gas stoves don’t burn hot enough for the copper pipes to be burning, so… maybe they cleaned the stoves with boric acid…?

    Seems like the right colour… 🤔

    I'll just put it over here with the rest of the fires...

  • blazeknave@lemmy.world
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    Tangentially related. Pilot light kept going out on two appliances. Utility company came. Had to turn turn the main bc too strong blowing out pilot. Why? Everyone replacing with electric means more supply and more physical pressure on the infra.

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      That’s actually really cool from a science perspective where are you? Assuming Europe? My current house has nat gas but looking to replace the water heater this year that will remove part of the gas reliance at least.

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      I doubt that’s how it works, because the gas company could just set the pressure on the pipes, like how divers have a certain pressure when breathing out of a tank with varying pressure.

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        That’s just not how pressure regulators work though, they all drop in pressure under flow compared to static, it’s inherent to how they work.

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    What Does Green Flame On Gas Stoves Mean?

    A green flame on your gas stove indicates that there’s something wrong with the combustion process. After all, the color of the flame depends on the combustion process and what exactly is burning.

    Source: Stovepedia

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      Well, the solution is simple – just fix whatever is causing the flame to turn green.

      Thank you.

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        Also, I liked the part where it asks you consider whether you’d borrowed the range. Who does that?

        “Hey, neighbor, do you have a gas range, I could borrow?”

        “Sure, Bud, it’s there in the garage. Just put it back when you’re done.”

        “Thanks a load! Say, it’s burning green. Did you put copper in the burners?”

        “Yes, I did. Just for you! Breath deeply.”

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          I’ve done tech support. They have to add that part in because yes, somebody did indeed borrow a stove at one point.

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          Little timmy ringing your doorbell and instead of asking for some flour he wants the fucking stove

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        That’s also the color copper burns, but for all the flames to look like that would require a lot of copper mixed in the gas or something disintegrating in the supply line.

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          Or there’s some copper grease used somewhere, or some kind of coating containing copper that should have been removed.

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              Not really, solid copper would need a higher temperature. It could be copper dust if there was some work done on the piping recently. It could also be that this is burning on bottled propane, which can contain some sulfur compounds that react with the copper, making the flames green. Or it could be cleaning agents if it’s recently cleaned. (according to some googling around) I also found this youtube video, but it’s kind of shitty, especially that it’s saying it’s due to acidic cleaner, and rinsing with vinegar should help.

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      Yeah I was gonna say… my first thought was that copper burns green, in various forms… probably not good.

      As the page says, salt+copper can lead to this or basically rusted copper can do this.

      Not good to be breathing, or getting absorbed into food.

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    I associate the green flames with either copper or not rinsing off your chlorine containing cleaning agent well enough.

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    Grewn flames would usually mean copper is being burned. Afaik copper isn’t usually used in gas lines so that would be strange indeed.

    They probably put some copper, boron or barium source on their burners.

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      Or Photoshop.

      Also I’ve burned copper wire for fun and the green flame appears for just a second or so, once it burns (I guess the surface oxidizes? ) it stops. If they put copper on the burners they must have some impressive coordination and speed to turn all three and snap the photo before the reaction is over

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    Red fire burns your food. Yellow fire shocks you. Orange fire makes you smell like oranges (piranhas love oranges). Purple fire is slippery. Green fire makes you smell like lime (piranhas hate lime). Blue fire…

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    as a firefighter i say - as long as it doesn’t smell like carbon monoxide, you should be good to go. also, dial “91” and keep your finger on the last “1” just in case.

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    That shi is straight Fel. hamzzysthecreator must be a warlock or literaly Gul’dan himself