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You may think that oranges are a boring  fruit. Discover their more exciting side in this simple experiment.

Read more about this kitchen science experiment.

[chapter podcast=1857 track=09.07.05/Naked_Scientists_Show_09.07.05_4140.mp3] Listen to the Experiment[/chapter] or [download as MP3]

[Brion Flubling]

this is very interesting! thanks

[sat074]

This is  great experiment. Personally I thought it deserved to win the BIG event demo competition.

[daveshorts]

Glad you liked it, I think I need to work on not being petrified when doing demos in front of BIG... Ho humm. I have lots of other things to do next year.

[dvijay]

Nice resrarch.I perticularly never have thought to do this type of thing.

[cindy]

This is so neat! Great work!

[BenV]

Randy Heisch, from Georgetown in Texas, sent us these amazing pictures of his own Fruit Fireballs:
Thanks Randy!  All pictures are copyright Randy Heisch, and you can see more of his pictures here.

[chloe wyld]

who knew orange was a colour fruit and could be so much fun!! :-) LoL!

[mama1]

I used this once in a dragon show,and made the orange and fire d dragon's breth.

[V.i.V]

The video is really cool! We plan to try it at school! AWESOME

[demot]

this looks awesome

[matt]

what you may not know about the Oranges skin is the fact that if you peel it and leave it to dry very hard to the point of been crisp it almost BURSTS into a mini fireball of doom.!

No am not pulling your leg, my grandad told me this odd little trick about starting log or coal fires in WW2, its a very good firestarter for subborn fires which will not light up.

Note if you try this at home be careful as it will suddenly burn up without warning once a flames touch comes into contact.

If you wish to try it you must air dry the skin until its super rock hard.

[BM]

This is really interesting experiment! I would use it for my science project:)

[Kapil]

Excellent Experiment.

Tried this today at home.

Here is the high speed (1000 fps and 480 fps) video shoot.