This 200-Year-Old Lighter Ignites Without a Spark

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Döbereiner's lamp uses a platinum catalyst to react hydrogen with oxygen.

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0:00 Introduction
0:30 What Is Döbereiner’s Lamp?
0:47 The Chemistry Behind it
1:13 The Power of Platinum Catalysis
1:36 I Got My Hands on One!
2:07 Why Zinc Matters
2:43 Creating Hydrogen on Demand
3:23 Let’s Talk Valves
3:44 When Platinum Glows
4:20 Wait—Where Does the Water Go?
5:12 Into the Orbitals
7:12 Water’s Exit Strategy
8:10 Happy 16th birthday to the channel
8:17 So… Why All the Hype?
8:49 Firemaking Through History
9:00 The “Strike Anywhere” Match
9:15 The Birth of the Modern Lighter
9:30 Zippo’s Warm Little Cousin
10:30 Catalytic Perfume Diffusers
11:07 The Hydrogen Fuel Cell
12:12 Outro