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Episode Title: Episode 65: Exploding Lighter, Magnificent Three

Original air date:11/1/2006
Myth Title: Exploding lighter


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dleh Clothes dryer experiment is flawed 5 Sep 2 2008, 4:54 AM EDT by AzDesertRat53
Thread started: Oct 8 2007, 9:00 PM EDT  Watch
For some reason the Mythbusters decide to test if a disposable lighter will explode if tumbled dry all by it self in a clothes dryer.
Then after allegedly several hours of drying, nothing happens, and Jamie concludes that 2 crucial factors (heat(to melt gas container) + ignition source) are missing before the lighter could explode.

The reason atleast 1 of the factors is missing is caused by the missing clothes in the dryer, any clothes containing synthetic fibers is capable of building a static charge, and that could be you ignition source.

Also it's not plausible that somebody would dry the lighter all by itself, usually there would be some clothing present...
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jandrews1244 bad lighter 6 Jan 22 2008, 11:53 PM EST by mediasmith
Thread started: Aug 21 2007, 1:48 AM EDT  Watch
you guys never used a differnt brand of lighter. you only used bic lighters. you should have used the cheep lighters that you can see through I have taken one of those lighters and lit it to get it hot then though the lighter on the ground and it exploded.
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pamisue68 Clothes dryer experiment is right on the money 0 Oct 11 2007, 6:25 PM EDT by pamisue68
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Been there, done that in my own dryer, albeit unintentionally, but no damage or ignition, even with the dryer on the hottest setting. And, if the rest of the population is anything like my husband and my son, this has been tested accidentally over and over, since fellas seem to be unable to take a lighter out of their pocket for anything other than to light something with it.
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