Uploaded July 2014 | Updated September 2026, 18 minutes ago

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Don't worry, the drink in the can you're holding is not going to spontaneously burst into flames, but under the right circumstances aluminum does catch fire, and the exact mechanism that governs how, has long been a mystery.

Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory

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