Chapter 4:

Striking At The Heat In The Night

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• 4.1 Dead rattlesnakes  update Jul 2009
• 4.2 Fire-detecting beetles
• 4.3 Bees kill hornet   update Oct 2007
• 4.4 Huddling animals   update Feb 2009
• 4.5 Space walking without a spacesuit
• 4.6 Drops on a hot skillet, fingers in molten lead    update Nov 2006  Apr 2007  May 2007
• 4.7 Short Story: A rather dreadful swallow
• 4.8 Walking over hot coals
• 4.9 Short Story: Fire-walking accounts
• 4.10 Freezing and supercooling water
• 4.11 Eating sea ice     update Oct 2006
• 4.12 Cooling rates of initially hot and warm water  update Jul 2009
• 4.13 Water frozen by the sky
• 4.14 Saving the stored vegetables with a tub of water
• 4.15 Spraying an orchard to preventing freezing
• 4.16 Throwing hot water into very cold air    update Feb 2008
• 4.17 Icicles    update Jan 2007
• 4.18 Ice dams at eaves
• 4.19 Rime ice and glaze ice on cables
• 4.20 Ice spikes and other ice formations  update Aug 2010
• 4.21 Cloudy ice cubes
• 4.22 Figures inside melting ice
• 4.23 Freezing of ponds and lakes
• 4.24 Freezing carbonated drinks   update Dec 2008
• 4.25 Bursting pipes
• 4.26 Touching or licking a cold pipe  update Mar 2010
• 4.27 Bumps in winter, pingos in permafrost
• 4.28 Arctic ice polygons
• 4.29 Growing stones in a garden, and patterned ground
• 4.30 Ploughing boulders
• 4.31 Short Story: Dead-cat bomb and a frozen disappearance
• 4.32 Snowflake formation
• 4.33 Skiing
• 4.34 Ice skating and making a snowball
• 4.35 Ice walking
• 4.36 Igloos
• 4.37 Snowrollers     update Jan 2008
• 4.38 Snow avalanche
• 4.39 Patterns formed by melting snow
• 4.40 Salting icy sidewalks
• 4.41 Homemade ice cream
• 4.42 Drinking hot coffee, eating hot pizza
• 4.43 Boiling water
• 4.44 Boiling an egg
• 4.45 Cooking in a stove or over flames
• 4.46 Campfire cooking
• 4.47 Cooking pizza
• 4.48 Heating in a microwave oven
• 4.49 Popping popcorn
• 4.50 Cooking scrambled eggs
• 4.51 Geysers and coffee percolators
• 4.52 Toy putt-putt boat
• 4.53 Thermal effects on lengths
• 4.54 Collapse of railroad storage tank    update Feb 2009
• 4.55 Drying of hanging laundry
• 4.56 Warm coats
• 4.57 Warm plants
• 4.58 Polar-bear hairs
• 4.59 Black robes and black sheep in the desert
• 4.60 Cooling rate of a cup of coffee
• 4.61 Cool water from porous pottery
• 4.62 Dunking bird
• 4.63 Short Story: Large dunking birds
• 4.64 Heat pipes and potato stickers
• 4.65 Foggy mirrors
• 4.66 Condensation on eyeglasses
• 4.67 Water collection in arid regions
• 4.68 Mud cracks
• 4.69 Inflating juice containers on airplanes
• 4.70 Inflating bubbles and balloons
• 4.71 Making cakes at high altitudes
• 4.72 Champagne in a tunnel
• 4.73 Short story: Stuck in a bottle
• 4.74 Wintertime thunder
• 4.75 Stack plumes
• 4.76 Smoke signals and mushroom clouds
• 4.77 Fire in a fireplace
• 4.78 A candle flame
• 4.79 Spraying a fire
• 4.80 Cooking oil fires     update Nov 2007
• 4.81 Brush fires and forest fires
• 4.82 Firestorms
• 4.83 Temperature regulation in mounds and buildings
• 4.84 Warmth of greenhouses and closed cars
• 4.85 Heat islands
• 4.86 Rubber-band thermodynamics
• 4.87 The foehn and the chinook
• 4.88 The boiling water ordeal
• 4.89 Energy in a heated room
• 4.90 Icehouse orientation
• 4.91 A radiometer toy and its reversal
• 4.92 Water wells and storms
• 4.93 Insect and shrimp plumes       Click on new to get the following new items (not in the book)
• 4.94 Rubber bands and the direction of time  Oct 2006
• 4.95 Tunnel fires   Jan 2007
• 4.96 Frost circles and the danger of sinkholes  Jan 2007
• 4.97 Cooking on sidewalks and dashboards   Aug 2007
• 4.98 Baked Alaska and frozen Florida   Dec 2007
• 4.99 A cartoon, MIT, and corn starch  Feb 2010
• 4.101 Cell phones popping popcorn  Mar 2010
• 4.102 Lava lamps  July 2010