Location of water bottles

Many people have this habit but do not know that their cars are at risk of fire at any time.

Summer has come, we have to endure the torrential sunshine to burn the soul.

Normally, heat causes dehydration, we will be thirsty faster and have to drink more water. So most people go everywhere to "catch" a bottle of water, avoid having to go to the sun to buy tired and useless.

And if you are a car owner, the high rate is that you have the habit of putting water bottles in the car, especially handy to the side of the car or the driver's seat.

Normally it is okay, but if your car is outside in the midday sun, you need to think again. Because, its consequences may be the same as the picture below.

Just a bottle of water can cause your car to burn, believe it ???

That's right! Only a seemingly harmless bottle of water, which your car can literally turn into . trains in a literal sense.

The reason is extremely simple: Water bottles often have a spherical surface and are made of transparent plastic. If it contains water inside, the bottle is likely to become a converging lens.

In the middle of the sun, the temperature in the car can reach nearly 60 degrees C. The sunlight from the window shining through the bottle will focus on one point and push the temperature even higher.

In an experiment by Dioni Amuchastegui - an electrical engineer in Idaho (USA), a bottle of water can gather sunlight and create a heat source that exceeds 100 degrees Celsius. If the bottle is placed on a dark surface (such as a chair) ), heat generated enough to ignite and create a disaster.

Water bottles can become a convergent lens.

In fact, the fact that a bottle of water in a car causes a fire needs a lot of factors, but it is not so that it does not happen. Amuchastegui himself had previously encountered a similar incident, so he decided to do an experiment to warn everyone.

So give up this habit before it's too late. Or if you want to leave the water in the car, remember to cover it at least, avoid leaving it in an open place, easily exposed to the sun.