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has glosseng: Exploding trees were the subject of a 2005 April Fools' Day hoax covered by National Public Radio, stating that maple trees in New England had been exploding due to a failure to collect their sap, causing pressure to build from the inside. Of course, maple trees have survived for millions of years on Earth, without human beings tapping them for maple syrup and without exploding nonetheless. The root pressure in a maple tree is approximately 0.1MPa, a tenth of one standard atmosphere, which is nowhere near enough to explode a tree. However, trees (maple and others) do explode sometimes, and such explosions are sometimes related to sap. These explosions can be caused by three different factors: cold, lightning, and fire.
lexicalizationeng: Exploding tree
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