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Last night wasn’t just the final episode of #GameOfThrones, it was the final episode of ‘A Science of Ice and Fire’—our series with @ChabotSpace that dives into wild experiments involving reactions freezing cold and burning hot. Here's all of them for your binging pleasure 1/
You don’t have to be a dragon to breathe fire. You can get your Drogon on using the fundamental laws of basic combustion. #GameofThrones 2/
Touching liquid nitrogen is basically like touching the Night King. This rose doesn’t turn blue, but by dipping it in the -321 F° substance, you can smash the flower like an ice cube: #GameofThrones 3/
In #GameofThrones, white fog signals the dead are coming.
Here, it signals frozen carbon dioxide is becoming a gas 4/
Here, it signals frozen carbon dioxide is becoming a gas 4/
Fire isn’t always red/orange. By burning metals, you can produce flames that span the color spectrum. Low energy fuels burn red, orange, and yellow, while higher energy fuels burn green, blue, and purple.
Guess that explains why Wildfire is green in #GameofThrones 5/
Guess that explains why Wildfire is green in #GameofThrones 5/
Isopropyl Alcohol can do a lot more than clean a cut. Turn it into a gas, add a flame, and the result is a scene reminiscent of Cersei blowing up the Great Sept of Baelor in #GameofThrones 6/
Forget Jon Snow, this is the peak combination of ice and fire.
Burning magnesium in a bed of dry ice fundamentally should not work. And yet it does. Here’s how #GameofThrones #GOT 7/
Burning magnesium in a bed of dry ice fundamentally should not work. And yet it does. Here’s how #GameofThrones #GOT 7/
