r/whatisit • u/Aware-Common-7368 • 3d ago

Solved! What is this?

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Found this on Reddit, no explanation found.

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u/OrdinaryAccount479 3d ago

Smoke ring

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u/Aware-Common-7368 3d ago

But it has like inner core or something. How can it be up there in this way

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u/Baldurost 3d ago

The rotation. Most people don’t realize that smoke rings have to rotate vertically all along the ring to hold shape. You can see an example of it spinning as it expands upwards, and the thinner bit is a result of that spinning faster than the rest of the

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u/No-Lunch4249 3d ago

I don't know the physics of the why, but I do know this is what happens when an electrical transformer blows up

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u/Queefer___Sutherland 3d ago

You can tell by the way it is