Pennsylvania's 50-Year-Old Coal Fire (Video)
In this ACS Video, Reactions explains the history and science behind the Centralia mine fire
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In 1962, an underground fire started in the coal-mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. Fifty-three years later, that fire still burns. In this week’s episode of Reactions, we explain the history and science behind the Centralia mine fire. Does anyone still live there? How could the fire keep burning for so long, and why hasn’t it been extinguished? From a chemical standpoint, what is fire, anyway?
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