The Experiment of Flame

The Experiment

It was a really cold day, mid-January in southern New Hampshire. Two students (our most wondrous selves) were testing their first experiment in Honors Science, little did they know, by the end, their hands would be incredibly cold. They clasped their frigid hands upon the cold metal bowl they were using as a container for the experiment.

The bowl was rested into a thin layer of ice. The variations of paper were nestled into their place betwixt a paperclip contraption, the contraption of holdiness. The flame of wrath, which came from the lighter of fury, was set to burn each of the small 3x4” pieces of paper. The flaming wrath consumed each piece of paper with the ferocity of a bear-lion-minotaur-naked mole rat-creature(basically the most demonic, horrific and violent creature that you can imagine multiplied by the largest number you can think of, infinity excluded).  

Each piece’s courage and flammability was whetted in a true test of temperature. The following results can be concluded and derived from such a tale.

Art Paper	1:26
Copy Paper	0:30
Lined Paper	0:15.5
Newspaper	0:12.8
Magazine Paper	0:10

Such results were in our mental grasp, as we had predicted that art paper could resist the roaring flames for the longest. However, our fortune tales could not make clear the fate of the other variations of paper.

If the gods would allow such practices as to retry time itself, and to attempt this experiment yet again in a more detailed analysis, we would try the same procedure, which entailed

1. Collecting the given resources
2. Cutting the paper into 3x4 inch pieces
3. Attaining a lighter

Now the fun begins

4. Place the art paper into the contraption
5. Hold a flame to it for a slow count of three
6. Measure the amount of time taken for the paper to burn completely
7. Record thine results
8. Repeat steps 4-7 with all other paper types until no paper is left

The Fist of Science

Bids you Adieu