A swirling flame that appears in fuel floating on the surface of water and glows blue. An unfortunate mix of electricity and bourbon has led to a new discovery. After lightning hit a Jim Beam ...

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Lightning struck a bourbon warehouse, setting fire to a cache of 800,000 gallons of liquor in the Bardstown countryside of Kentucky in 2003. Some of it spilled into a nearby creek, spawning a massive ...

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Main structure and flow structure of 'blue whirl' flame revealed through supercomputer simulations. Flame simulations entailed four million CPU hours. Further research on blue whirls might help ...