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VISITS TO THE MOON AND PLANETS
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Now put the glowing end in the bubbles of one of the ice-floes and you see the flame burst out again. If the bubbles were water vapour this would not happen; they are really air, and the rush of air made by the rapid evaporation lights up the match again.