Can you explain?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqTbkK7IrRk


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The heat from the charcoal is unable to pierce the bottom of the plastic kettle because water is absorbing the heat... And the heat in turn causes the water to boil.....
The piercing will occur when a considerable amount of the water has evaporated

Same as boiling water using a nylon bag. The water never exceeds 100 degC which is less than the melting point of the nylon.

WibusJaga:


Same as boiling water using a nylon bag. The water never exceeds 100 degC which is less than the melting point of the nylon.

I think the boiling water could have exceeded 100°C seeing that that's the normal water boiling temperature at sea level. But it still has a temperature much less than the melting point of the plastic kettle.

What I think:

1. Painted coals. Mixed chemicals reacting not from heat from the base.

2.Fire will melt the outer surface of the plastic if we choose to apply physics, causing it to change shape.


Heat cannot readily be transfered from fire, through plastic, to a boiling temperature. More so, we cannot see the under.

3. Also, it could be metal painted like the plastic.�

chatinent:
What I think:

1. Painted coals. Mixed chemicals reacting not from heat from the base.

2.Fire will melt the outer surface of the plastic if we choose to apply physics, causing it to change shape.


Heat cannot readily be transfered from fire, through plastic, to a boiling temperature. More so, we cannot see the under.

3. Also, it could be metal painted like the plastic.�

No 3.. should be it..

lilvicky68:

No 3.. should be it..

Much like it boss.

Here's my scientific explanation:
Since water in liquid state cannot be hotter than 100 degrees centigrade, the kettle can be heated in such a way that it boils water without melting.

A few unknowns
Is the plastic kettle in direct contact with red hot coal?
Is that clear liquid actually water?

Under normal conditions: Due to the low conductive nature of plastics, the plastic should melt because despite the heat sink caused by the water. The 'cold' transfer from the water would not be transferred to the plastic kettle fast enough.

I find it hard to trust cunning people. This is a cunning video.