Video is distributed on the Internet: users are trying to set fire to snow with a lighter, but it does not melt. The authors of the video draw a conclusion - which means that the snow is not real, but plastic or consists of chemicals. We checked whether this is really so.

In January 2021, residents of the Krasnodar Territory began to massively try to melt the snow, but it did not melt. Then the authors of the videos decided that the snow is not real. Here, for example, what He said One of the experimenters: “He does not melt at all. <...> How plastic, real ".

And the inhabitants of Texas, who recently hit the weather, seeing that the fallen snow was not melting, Commented So: “Thank you, Bill Gates, that you are trying to deceive us and pass this snow for the real one. He does not melt, but burns. Snow does not burn. "

In fact, a photo and video where the snow does not melt from the lighter, but burns (it becomes black), Distributing On the Internet for many years. This winter, information about such “strange” snow appeared in at least two countries: in the USA, where Texas covered with snow and frosts, and in Russia, where users also decided to try to fire snow.

In the USA it all started with a video in Tiktok. The original video in which the incorrect snow is recorded in the merits of Bill Gates, already Removed From the social network. But they stayed other Video with similar experiments: Users are trying to melt the snow with a lighter, but it does not turn into water, but is smoked.

In all likelihood, the inhabitants of Russia saw these videos and therefore also tried to repeat the experiment. Results were The same.

Conspirological theories have appeared in both countries: it means that the snow is not real, but created by the government (specially or not) or corporations. He is all “plastic” or “chemical” because of a poor ecology, in which the state is supposedly guilty.

In fact, the fact that a lump of snow does not melt from the lighter, there is nothing surprising. The thing is that the dense snowball has high thermal conductivity: the heat coming from the light of the lighter is transmitted through the upper layers deep into the snowball. Therefore, until all the snow acquires the temperature of melting, the drops will not fall from it.

That's right Explained The journalist and popularizer of science, Mikhail Kotov, is happening to the Russians in the commentary to Fontanka. However, back in 2014, when, against the backdrop of another weather anomaly - this time in Atlanta, the USA - users in the same way Tried melt snowballs with a lighter and did not succeed in what is happening Explained astronomer Phil Plate.

According to him, such lumps are actually melting. Indeed, due to high thermal conductivity, heat is discharged from the surface, and if it does not have time to dissipate, then melting occurs inside the snowfield and the water that appears is adsorbed in the pores of the not melted snow. Even such lumps of snow, if they are heated for a long time on fire, melt: just users do not wait for this moment, believing that heat forms only on the surface of the snowball and it should immediately melt.

In general, if you try to melt the same snow without making snowballs (or even more so snowdrifts), and having poured a little, it gradually melts. You just need to wait for this.

As for the fact that the snow is dying, there is still easier: When combustion of a button is combined, carbon forms from the lighter, that is, soot - and it is she who settles on white snow. Similarly smokes And a spoon if it is heated with a lighter.

Thus, no, if the snowball does not melt from the light of the lighter, this does not mean that it is fake. He does not melt, because these are the laws of physics.