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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Modern gas burners use a fascinating technology to determine if the fire is on or off: they use electrical current *through* the flame. The flame is actually a conductor, because water is one of the products of hydrocarbon combustion. And it reacts pretty much instantaneous both ways (flame appearing and disappearing), unlike old methods which used heat.