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+title: The Match-Head Bomb
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+On another occasion when we lived in the flat-roofed house, Tom and I
+were home alone and itching for some mischief. We set up a card table in
+the living room to serve as our chemistry lab. I cut the heads off of a
+bunch of common matches and put them into a small glass Christmas
+ornament. It was the kind that you hang on the tree with a little wire
+hook. We simply removed the little wire loop and the thingy that covered
+the hole in the glass globe so we could fill the inside of the ball with
+the match heads. I didn\'t have any real goal with this dangerous stunt,
+so I started doing some crazy stupid experimenting with this little
+bomb. We had a candle mounted on a small plate that was on the card
+table. I lit the candle and held the phosphorous filled ball with my
+bare hand. I can\'t imagine what ever came over me to do such a crazy
+thing, but I then proceeded to hold the Christmas ball over the flame to
+see what would happen.\
+\
+Well, you can guess what happened next. Pow! The glass ball exploded
+with a nice poof noise. Fortunately, the glass of the ornament was so
+thin that it didn\'t create a very strong containment for the energetic
+combustion reaction that started inside it. Thus, the explosion was more
+of a poof than a big nasty bang you would expect from a well-built bomb.
+Unfortunately, the consequence of this poof caused burning bits of match
+heads and broken glass to be propelled all over the living room. My
+mother\'s living room curtains took the worst of the explosion because
+many of the burning match heads landed in the lacy folds of the curtains
+and ended up as a bunch of ugly black-ringed holes.\
+\
+To this day, I don\'t understand how I avoided a month of being grounded
+over this episode. Obviously, my mother was not pleased that I ruined
+her living room curtains, but perhaps she and dad were just glad the
+whole house didn\'t catch fire. I must have at least learned a lesson
+because there were no more near disasters with explosives in my
+remaining early years.