{"id":3729,"date":"2010-07-31T16:35:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2010-07-31T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:35:56","slug":"how-tank-car-implosions-work-%e2%80%93-the-blogs-at-howstuffworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/how-tank-car-implosions-work-%e2%80%93-the-blogs-at-howstuffworks\/","title":{"rendered":"How tank car implosions work \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Blogs at HowStuffWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/E_hci9vrvfw&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/E_hci9vrvfw&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the immediate thought might be, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that would never happen in real life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yet is does, as you can see in this article&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.howstuffworks.com\/2008\/04\/22\/how-tank-car-implosions-work\/\">How tank car implosions work \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Blogs at HowStuffWorks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why does the can implode? When water turns to steam, it expands by a factor of about 1,600. When the steam cools, it turns back into water, reducing by a factor of 1,600.   So as the steam cools, a partial vacuum is formed&#8230;  Nature Abhors a vacuum, and the external air pressure quickly causes the car to collapse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the immediate thought might be, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that would never happen in real life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yet is does, as you can see in this article&#8230; How tank car implosions work \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Blogs at HowStuffWorks. Why does the can implode? When water turns to steam, it expands by a factor of about 1,600. When the steam cools, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/how-tank-car-implosions-work-%e2%80%93-the-blogs-at-howstuffworks\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[27,54,19,48],"tags":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->