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No one knows, but it probably had something to do with the flammable hydrogen that was keeping it in the air.
NOT TRUE!! lolz xx no, the Hindenburg was filled with Hydrogen that poticular day, A spark of electricity ignited the hydrogen causing it to blow up. so hah 2 hew Eva rote that !! :P ily all!!xx Msg mee
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∙ 14y agoThe Hindenburg zeppelin was struck by lightning. It had been painted with an aluminum based paint, which attracted the lightning, and once struck, it burned very well because it was inflated with a flammable gas, hydrogen. So it was a disastrous design.
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∙ 15y agoThe Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen, the lightest of all elements, so it would float. But what the engineers didn't take into account is that hydrogen is explosive by nature, one spark and the whole thing went up.
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∙ 10y agoIn 1937 - a fire and an explosion; the balloon was filled with hydrogen which is dangerous.
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∙ 13y agoit was struck by lightning and firefighters dident get their in time and it spread rapidly
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May 6th 1937 the Hindenburg exploded in Lakehurst New Jersey What was the Hindenburg?
Hindenburg is the name of a very big airship destroyed in 1937 in an accident.
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Addison bain experiments?
He postulated the Bain Incendiary Paint Theory. The Bain believes that hydrogen in the airship had no part to play in the initiation of the Hindenburg disaster.
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Why did the airship in the hindenburg disaster use helium?
Helium was initially selected for the lifting gas because it was the safest to use in airships, as it is not flammable. At the time it was extremely expensive, and was only available from natural gas reserves in the United States. Hydrogen, by comparison, could be cheaply produced by any industrialized nation and had more lift. American rigid airships using helium were forced to conserve the gas at all costs and this hampered their operation. While a hydrogen-filled ship could routinely vent gas as necessary, a helium-filled ship had to resort to dynamic force if it was too light to descend, a measure that took a toll on its structure.Despite a U.S. ban on helium exports, the Germans designed the ship to use the gas in the belief that the ban would be lifted; when the designers learned that the ban was to remain in place, they were forced to re-engineer the Hindenburg to use hydrogen for lift. Despite the danger of using flammable hydrogen, no alternative gases that could provide sufficient lift could be produced in sufficient quantities. One beneficial side effect of employing hydrogen was that more passenger cabins could be added. The Germans' long history of flying hydrogen-filled passenger airships without a single injury or fatality engendered a widely held belief they had mastered the safe use of hydrogen. The Hindenburg's first season performance appeared to demonstrate this.
When did Hindenburg happen?
If you are referring to the explosion of the Hindenburg, it was on may 6, 1937.
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Hindenburg disaster happened on 1937-05-06.
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What happen to the Hindenburg?
its called CAUGHT ON FIRE AND BURNED TO THE GROUND
What tragedy befell the Hindenburg?
The Hindenburg was filled with highly flammable hydrogen gas which ignited as the airship was landing at Lakehurst NJ in 1936. 35 of the 97 passengers and crew, as well as one ground crew worker, were killed in the inferno.
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