What Happens When You Ignite One Million Matches At Once? | MythBusters

A YouTube video showed what claimed to be the result of igniting a massive quantity of match heads at once, and the internet immediately started arguing about whether it was real and what would happen if you used even more, so Adam and Jamie started with a one-gallon bucket of 30,000 match heads, watched it produce a fireball ten feet high, decided that wasn't nearly enough, spent an entire day with the full crew cutting match heads to fill a 44-gallon drum with a million of them, and then because even that wasn't the end of the story, built a cannon out of a pressurized argon cylinder, loaded it with 60,000 match heads and a six-pound bowling ball, aimed it at a rack of pins, and fired it to find out what happens when match head energy gets pointed at something specific.

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Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it.

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