119 Here's hoping her source is wrong. (85k followers) (twitter.com) posted 1 year ago by b472113 1 year ago by b472113 +120 / -1 26 comments share 26 comments share save hide report block hide replies
When are fires that intense and strong that they wipe out everything on the street like that? Has anyone ever seen that?
Never. And fire doesn't melt aluminum wheels to a liquid state...
A bonfire with no accelerant can reach 2000F+ flames.
1220F is the melting point of aluminum.
If the fire is bad enough, it absolutely could do that.
Depends on how hot the fire gets - I know a lady whose daughter was murdered and set on fire in her car.
She keeps a melted bit of aluminum from the car in her memory garden.
Looks like liquid mercury, frozen in a squiggly line
Nonsense, a good hot wood fire will melt aluminum easily. I’ve done it myself.
Give it a try and record the temperatures.
Umm, where did you get this bit of logic? Aluminum wheels, usually have rubber tires on them. Rubber ignites at 600-700 degrees, and then burns at upwards of 1,200 degrees. It's not usual. Ignition and burn are not the same thing.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a1858946/tennessee-forest-fires-liquefy-aluminum-rims/
I stand corrected.