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A convex lens can be used to burn a piece of paper using sunlight. How?

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The sunlight refracts through the lens to it's focal point, concentrating the light to a pinpoint which produces heat.

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We used to burn bugs all the time. Great fun, eh Sin?
Happy we used to do it on fingernails, super painful.
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Great story. You could probably wrap that man around your finger.
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I've was the same way with my daughter and still am.

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