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I feel a comic idea brewing...So, any ideas what Twilight Sparkle was having Sweetie belle do this time to practice her magic... something with a unexpected, yet plausible flammable ending?
Something like blowing flour with magic... (flour dust plus flame = Fireball... You should try it someday, it is awesome)
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Hmmm... Need to come up with a technical drawing for a pulse jet rocket from somewhere... and figure out how Scoots would use it, and fuel it.
Ideas?
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I don't know what the plot should be, but it should end with Twilight blowing up!
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sugar dust and or marshmallows both very flammable
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Everyone seems to have taken all the good ideas. All that I have left is maybe a snow field trying to get Sweetie to blow a snow pile clear then BOOM!
I've seen the flour trick. It can get nasty. Looks cool though.
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Transmutation spell. i'll let the details fill in for themselves XD
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Pulse jet engine systems...powered by lemonade?
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Re: pulse jet: Have some sort of puffer that releases small puffs of flour powder, and a spark plug that lights the puff in the middle of the pulse-jet's combustion tube.
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"But this is WATER....I don't...she can't have ignited the hydrogen from the water, could she?"
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Reminds me of that microwave experiment that was able to ignite seawater. [link]
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Sweetie belle Fission master YAY!!
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Fill it with water, have Sweetie Belle try to magic the water. Instant propulsion.
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Accelerate via pulling a rope, decelerate by crashing (Or a parachute). Fuel could be Refined rainbow which is burned with a oxidizer propellant.
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I spilled alcohol over an anthive and set it on fire.
Inside my home.
I think I am qualified enough to set flour dust on fire.
PYROMANIA FTW
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Twilight: "But...that was water. HOW DID YOU MAKE WATER COMBUST?!"
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Lest we forget water is made of 2 flammable gasses, Sweetie Belle is there to remind us
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Well, technically, ONE flammable gas.
People think that oxygen is flammable. By itself, it's not. Light a match in an oxygen enriched atmosphere, and it's the MATCH that explodes.
Le Chatlier's principle...add more of a reactant, the reaction speeds up because of the increased probability that a reaction event will occur. Increased concentrations of oxygen will have a wonderful effect...if it's inert, it may become combustible. If it's combustible, it becomes flammable. If it's flammable, it becomes explosive.
You're right on one thing, though...if a fire gets hot enough, you can't use water to extinguish it...the heat causes the water to decompose into hydrogen and oxygen, which then adds fuel and oxidizer to the higher energy reaction...
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Combustion is by definition the rapid, exothermic oxidation of a material.
Without oxygen, there can be no oxidation, and thus no combustion, thus Oxygen is the ultimate flammable gas
You light a match in a oxygen rich environment... the match rapidly disappears in a ball of flame...
Hydrogen/ oxygen reactions are so much more energetic when you only have hydrogen and oxygen to react... usually detonating the bell jar you've vacuumed the gas you created through electrolysis... That is why hydrogen and oxygen make the best rocket fuel. It's readily available and extremely energetic (not too bad for the environment either )
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You're right about "without oxygen there can be no oxidation." But the actual combustible/flammable/explosive part isn't the oxygen. It's the fuel. If you have nothing to oxidize, nothing burns. If oxygen WERE flammable, it could ignite itself.
Oxidation can also occur with other elements, usually light halides. Fluorine, for example, is one nasty oxidizer. You could, in theory, have combustion in a pure fluorine environment...except that since fluorine is so reactive, trying to set up an experiment like this is an exercise in insanity.
Making a combustible lemon, therefore, is simply a matter of applying enough oxidizer...either gaseous oxygen or something that supplies the oxidant through the chemical reaction. It's also the principle behind the oxygen lance...it's just a heat-resistant pipe which feeds oxygen into the fuel at the end...this is usually metallic fuel, although there are demo videos of using unusual fuels...bacon, salami, cucumber...not sure if they've tried a lemon yet...
Combustion requires the fuel, the oxidizer, and the activation energy. I'd be willing to bet Sweetie Belle's talent involves manipulation of all of these, if she can figure it all out...
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Maybe Twi was trying to get Sweetie Belle to light a kerosene lamp? (hint, hint!)
I like the Mythbusters saying better: Don't try anything you're about to see at home. We're what you call "experts".
Maybe Scoots' jet pack runs on cider from Sweet Apple Acres, thus getting Applebloom in the mix where some crazy CMC hijinks will ensue? (hint, hint!)
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Some reason I'm thinking something to do with large amounts of sawdust and a big bucket of some sort. Or better yet Ice that, because of Sweety, bursts into flames...don't ask how.
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Water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen... Which both are highly flammable
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Scoot can use gunpowder to fuel it. 
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Well, what is also awesome is dropping gummy bears into molten potassium chlorate...
Given that liquid rainbow seems to be a similarly powerful oxidant, what happens if you drop sugary things into it? Slightly off topic for Sweetiebelle but possibly useable somewhere (mythbuckers/Scootaloo's rocket fuel?).
I have two chemistry degrees and so can claim to be a trained professional in this area. Please do not even think of trying the above at home. (If you're interested though, I do have videos, as does YouTube).
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I'm surprised Pinkie Pie didn't explode when she tasted the liquid rainbow... Her diet is entirely sugar...
But she did breathe fire...
It's a myth to bust!
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What happened to her eyes!? Oh, wait, that's just pencil. Nevermind!
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i was going to say something about everything she touches wiht her magic bursts in to flame buuut you got the fire part covered.(i need to try that flour thing just a small amount not too big im a bit of a pyro)
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Sweetie Belle = my favorite Cutie Mark Crusader.
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Twilight: "Ok Sweetie Belle, let's try to steer clear of you setting things on fire, I know! How about you freeze this bucket of water?"
Bucket catches fire.
Sweetie Belle: "Ugh, not again!"
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Twilight Sparkle: "Okay, Sweetie, this time I want you to try lifting the firefly lamp."
Sweetie Belle: "Uhm, but there's no fireflies in it."
TS: "Well, yes, I let them go because... Well, anyway, it's made of metal, so it should be more receptive to magic without being so, er, volatile."
Meanwhile, Spike is watching the event while munching on potato chips. Cue lifting scene where instead of the lamp lifting up it shoots out a bolt of lightning that lights the potato chips on fire and sends them flying everywhere.
Spike: "Augh! My chips!"
TS: "My books!"
SB: *Sigh*
How would Scoots use a pulse jet? Uhm... How would Twilight use a book? 
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LOL!
dat legal disclaimer XD
that's a cute looking sweetie belle drawing :3
uhm... something to do that will end in flames.... hmm... saddly I got nothing mr. birdco
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My laywer to me is like the colonel to Rex... Keeping me from corrupting the worlds youth too much.
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lolol!!
can't have the future generations blowing themselves up because Mr. birdco makes it look cool XD
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Yeah, just because I took an inductive loop and used to to power a rail gun that can shoot a penny at 350 mph doesn't mean its a good idea.
Especially since if you don't put spin on the pennies, they tend to turn face into the airstream, and basically go anywhere except where you shot them at.
That, and running an inductive loop with a 12v car battery tends to make the car battery explode if you let the loop charge to long. Car batteries have both lead and sulfuric acid in them... so they are both fragmentary and chemical weapons when they explode.
Also, using aluminium for the rails is a bad idea too. Apparently, Aluminium is flammable if you put enough current through it, and when aluminium starts burning... nothing can put it out.
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Lmao!
poor mr. birdco, little things like, reality, holding him back from achieving the impossible and awesome XD
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Hmm...unexpected, yet plausible...telekinesis has already been covered, so why not try teleportation? You could have flaming treads on the ground leading up to a lightly singed Sweetie Belle nearby or something. It's a little advanced, but probably not impossible.
As for Scootaloo's fuel issue, why not try liquid rainbow as fuel? I'm sure the CMC can mix random crap with that to find something that makes it more volatile (assuming it isn't effective enough on its own). Housing won't be an issue, but finding a pump to deliver specific bursts of the stuff at a time will be tricky given the limited technology in Equestria. I suppose some bellows could work. They must have that at least.
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Pulse jet, um I would say refined and processed lemon juice could be the answer. The processing may allow it to be turned into a stable fuel. As to use it dutch tape it to her scooter
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Sweetie bell should help Pinkie in the Sweet shop to practice her magic. ^-^ Plenty of flour in there!
Scoot must power it with liquid rainbow of course. The old go to is the best go to.
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More magic practice? But Sweetie is still exhausted from her last lessons. I think they should take a break, eat something and drink some lemonade.
And Scoots can use the remaining lemonade...
btw I just googled "pulse jet technical drawings" and found some plans, but they're for model flight... [link] [link]
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