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Why does smoke follow you around a fire?

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Imagine: you’re having a good time around a fire when out of nowhere, smoke blows straight in your face. Naturally, you get up and move to get out of the way. But suddenly, the smoke is blowing right back in your face! What’s going on? SciShow explores the physics of smoke. 

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Why does smoke follow you around a fire? This video is about the smoke of the fire or better the smoke that fire procudes, and the more intersting about it, is that how one person around the fire can modify the ambient and draw the smoke to you. It's very intersting how the science explain this, really because I've never thought about it, and what I liked more are the solutions for this case. I've never thought about the science behind the movement of the fire, why simply I believed that I needed get off around the fire but why I'd never to be able to explain.

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