Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Thermite Reaction

Thermite

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Original – An aluminothermic reaction with Iron(III) oxide; as known as a thermite reaction. The mixture was ignited in a glass jar using a length of Magnesium ribbon. The sparks flying outwards are globules of molten iron, trailing smoke in their wake.

Edit 1 - Tighter crop

Reason

I think it's a pretty nice shot and useful in many articles. Is of sufficient resolution etc and has had very little manipulation (crop & slight curve tweak).

Articles in which this image appears

Thermite, Chemical reaction, Exothermic reaction, Aluminothermic reaction, Exothermic

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Others

Creator

Nikthestoned

• Support as nominator --Nikthestoned 08:32, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
• Support It has quite a bit of blown highlights, but I believe the exposure is right, communicating sheer brightness and heat of this reaction. JJ Harrison (talk) 10:07, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose It may be accurately correct, and exposed properly, but the image itself is not upto FP standard for me. The floor is very distracting not to mention the huge brick on the left hand side. Not the clean precise image I would expect us to be featuring for a scientific image like this. JFitch (talk) 11:52, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

  I don't see how the floor is distracting given the relative brightness when compared to everything else in the image; the brick also supplies scale. Not that that's the reason it was there, which was purely for our safety given the ferocity of this reaction (along with many of it's brethren)! Nikthestoned 15:38, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

• Support Rather impressive photo. Dusty777 (talk) 18:20, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
• Comment It is really impressive close up, but thumbnail really doesn't do it justice. Can we make the crop a bit tighter to get it a bit more visible? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 19:39, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

  Crop added. Nikthestoned 08:19, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

• OK, Support. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 23:45, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

• To clarify, support either, prefer crop. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 10:41, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

• Support either version. Pine^talk 05:34, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
• Comment -- It's a fine image, but not exceptionally useful (especially since there seem to be quite a few such images lying around). What would be really cool and useful and encyclopedic for the article is a high quality video clip of one of these reactions. Then you'd really have something. JBarta (talk) 17:34, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Wiki's video support really sucks though at the moment. They don't support h264 as they should. 1080p ogg video needs pretty ridiculous bit rates to get decent quality. This lowers the value in articles hugely in my view - no one will sit around waiting for them to load. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:23, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Which one? Makeemlighter (talk) 00:21, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

• I mildly prefer the original since the crop feels a little tight on the right. JJ Harrison (talk) 22:03, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
• I prefer the original. The alt has too tight a crop... reduces the impressiveness of the picture in my opinion. I would go for the original. Dusty777 (talk) 23:05, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
• I prefer the original too, should clarification for my auto-vote be required also! Nikthestoned 10:20, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Promoted File:ThermiteReaction.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 20:45, 31 October 2011 (UTC)