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Watch a close-up view ofthe vapor products evolve from cracking of Athabasca Bitumen

Rapid heating of Athabasca Vacuum Residue to 530 ^oC

50 mm thick layer of bitumen on Curie point alloy, heating at ca. 1000 K/s using an induction field. The coil for the induction field is visible around the outside of the tube. The sample is held in a nitrogen atmosphere to prevent combustion. The "smoke" that evolves is tiny droplets of liquid product from the bitumen.

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