E-cigarettes and plastic water bottles...things you should not leave in the car during the summer

Arabia Weather - Many of us may resort to leaving some things inside the car to use when needed, but with the onset of summer and rising temperatures, it is necessary to be aware of the danger of leaving some materials in your car, as they can interact negatively and cause harm to you or your vehicle.

Things to avoid leaving in the car during the summer:

1. Gas materials: such as gas cylinders, lighters, perfumes, air fresheners, and sterilizers. These materials may explode due to high heat and cause damage to your vehicle.
2. E-cigarettes and electronic devices: High heat can damage these devices and put you at risk of an explosion in your camera or phone battery and even your mobile battery.
3. Sunscreen and medications: The composition of these products changes when exposed to high temperatures and may become harmful to health.
4. Glasses: Exposure of glasses to heat for a long time changes their shape and greatly damages the lenses.
5. CDs: The CDs we use to listen to music may melt and deteriorate when exposed to sunlight.
6. Plastic bottles: Exposure of plastic water bottles to heat leads to water pollution due to plastic materials.
7. A. Lipstick: These products often consist of a mixture of oils and waxes, and they become susceptible to melting when exposed to the sun, which changes their composition.

What happens if you leave a bottle of water in the car?

Answer: Leaving a bottle of water inside the car seems normal and usual, but on a hot summer day, the undesirable may happen. The plastic can act as a lens that focuses the light to become a high-energy beam, which may be intense enough to burn certain materials such as car seat upholstery. The American Idaho Power Company broadcast a video clip showing a water bottle burning two holes in a car seat.

During the World Cup, one of the Russian water companies designed water bottles in the shape of a football. It turned out that these bottles can act as very precise lenses and reflect light intensely. It showed a video clip published by Fontanka Ru, in which the bottles appear to focus light enough to ignite a box of matches. Burn a hole in the wood flooring.

“Light is made up of many photons, which are subatomic particles moving in a straight line,” Odile Madden, a materials scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, explained to Live Science. “Microscopic lenses, or eyeglass lenses, direct the photons to converge at a specific point, allowing "By seeing objects better, it also focuses a large amount of light, generating energy that can burn flammable materials."

Michael Daughtry, a chemist at GCI who participates in Madden's research within the Institute's Modern and Contemporary Art Research Initiative, added that sunlight passing through a car window hits the seat with about 600 watts per square meter of energy, which is the same amount of energy emitted by a small electric heater. But they are concentrated on a tiny dot of less than a millimeter, and seconds of concentrated sunlight can easily heat the vinyl material from which car seat upholstery is made to the temperature where it decomposes, causing it to burn.

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Sources:

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