Well I can't say what is happening but it darkening is almost certianly from the smoke of the lighter (its not burning clean), and the reason its not melting is because of more then likelly, the lidenfrost effect (outer layer vaporizes and as a gas it doesn't conduct heat as well so it creates an insulating barrier (which is why water will bounce and skid around in a hot pan, or why you can have liquid nitrogen spilled on you and it won't damage you (until that barrier dissipitates (which if you have enough or enough time passes, it will))). That would be my educated guess.
What you are seeing there is the sut from the gas flame that collects on the snow, the temperature from a lighter is not that high when it has to melt hard packed snow and by that time it's like ice. It's like when you light and oxy acetylene torch with no oxidizer it's fuel does not burn clean and can only burn clean with an oxidizer. That's why you see black stuff coming off the flame of a Acetylene torch with no oxidizer. When you add an Oxidizer to the fuel it burns clean because the temperature is high enough to burn all the impurities in the fuel. science.howstuffworks.com/.../question43.htm
Uh…. that’s the smoke from the lighter. You could hold that same lighter up to a light bulb, metal pot, or anything that won’t burn/melt right away and get the exact same thing happening.
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Nothing is normal in Texas :D
Dirt and smell: we don't know how many people of his style already have walked over that snow sample.
When I watched the clip, I actually smelt nothing.
I've seen 'black snow' plenty of times when it got mixed up with mud and dirt from the ground.
Snow is white, unless dirt, pee, etc, is on it. If Texas has black snow, it's because there is dirt on the snow, which is often caused by pollution.
that’s from the flame fluid. That’ll happen to pretty much anything. Put it on a pan and watch it melt. Fucking hillbillies.
Why do you Canadians always have to bring race into everything. I'm glad that the Asians took over your country
Because Black Lives Matter
I see shadows... I do not swee black snow
From all the car oils on the ground
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