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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	How to make a fire with water? Nov 19^th, 2005 at 10:29pm Anybody know the answer?
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Tumakas Descens Offline I'm slinging in the rain! Posts: 173 Las Vegas, NV Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #1 - Nov 20^th, 2005 at 1:46am 1) Toss a bar of sodium in. 2) Use electrolysis, harvest the hydrogen and cause a spark.
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #2 - Nov 20^th, 2005 at 2:39am Nope. Using just water.
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Re: How to make a fire with water?
Reply #3 - Nov 20^th, 2005 at 12:23pm

Make a lens out of a piece of ice and use that. You need some tinder, though.
Wait! I remember one article which shown how to use plastic bag/Saran wrap with a water like lens to make fire.
Did I win the contest?

Note: making fire using just water is impossible as far as you are not able to use water as fuel without any modifications. You need water, a tinder and a fuel.

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Lionheart Descens Offline Sling when you're winning Posts: 229 Near Manchester, England Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #4 - Nov 20^th, 2005 at 1:07pm intereseting point but got to ask why??
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Gard Senior Member Offline Yup, there are slingers in Norway too! Posts: 396 Norway Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #5 - Nov 20^th, 2005 at 1:58pm If you make a big lens out of ice, and warm up some water with the lens and sunlight untill it goes over to gas (some thousand degrees), and then if you can get the water as hot as that, it wont be any problem to put the gas in fire. Gard
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Stenny Funditor Offline Don't laugh at me, I can sling in every direction! Posts: 654 Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #6 - Nov 20^th, 2005 at 3:02pm Piece of cake! Image being in middle of carving huge lens out of ice and being interrupted by some uninvited summer!
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Tint Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 2348 Hong Kong Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #7 - Nov 20^th, 2005 at 8:22pm Water is H2O. There are ways to seperate the hydrogen and oxygen (I think this can be done by using electricity to polarised the water). Once that's managed lighting the hydrogen is easy. Oh wait a minute, Tumakas mentioned it earlier.......Duh......
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #8 - Nov 20^th, 2005 at 8:49pm You guys are too good. You do indeed take a piece of ice and form it into a lens, then PRESTO! With a little tinder you have Fire
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3247 Akron NY Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #9 - Nov 21^st, 2005 at 12:08pm Yeah, but i magine you would need a pretty clear and flaw free piece of ice to do it. The question then would be could that be found when you need it?
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TLM Tiro Offline Have tried a lot of things Posts: 21 Helsinki, Finland Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #10 - Nov 21^st, 2005 at 1:55pm Can't remember where but I have seen on somesite an experiment with an ice lens, did not work on that occasion, not impossible though. TLM
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Re: How to make a fire with water?
Reply #11 - Nov 21^st, 2005 at 2:11pm

But surely the problem with ice is it needs to be cold enough to get a alrge lump of solid ice, but hot enough to light a fire with it. Whenever i've done this with a magnifyign glass it has o be pretty hot, ie melting ice temperature. And Gard, when you turn water into a gas it turns into steam...
I think you can electrolise it with paperclips and a 9V bolt battery. Interestign thing to try, take a wire scrubbing brush used for washing up and tape a 9V battery to it

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #12 - Nov 22^nd, 2005 at 3:26pm actually it can be freezing cold and very bright sun at the same time. the problem would be getting pure enough water to make a clear enough lens.
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Matt_C Funditor Offline Cruachan!!! Posts: 736 Cheshire, England Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #13 - Dec 3^rd, 2005 at 10:06am If water is at boiling temperature then frozen it will freeze extremely clear...but to do that you'd need to make a fire to boil the water...
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: How to make a fire with water? Reply #14 - Dec 3^rd, 2005 at 3:58pm hmm so then next time i want to start a fire with water i need to take my zippo?
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