How does the Vatican smoke signal

When the Catholic Church chooses a new Pope, the world is not for a press conference or social media post, a small chimney in Sistine Chapel to rise rising smoke.

If the fog is black, the new pope has not been selected. If it is white, a decision was made: There is a papa – There is a pope. This is a high drama, it is broadcast by millions of years.

Not seeing that they do not see that the secret complexity of the centuries-old rituals: carefully formed chimneys, engineering stoves and precision chemical recipes, a clear message of any part.

Experts told BBC that the process was “two special fireworks”, smoke testing and Vatican firefighters in standby. Engineers working in Unison and church officials are carefully organized by the group.

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday with an 88-year-old Easter and the funeral, focused on the spotlight, a special meeting in which a new Pope will be elected.

The Vatican confirmed that Cardinals will meet at 7 Cardinals to celebrate a special mass in 7 cards to celebrate a special mass before gathering in Sistine Chapel. the ink ballot will start.

The tradition of burning paper ballots of cardinals applies to the 15th century and to ensure transparency and prevent discreetness, especially preventing papal election delays and prevented riots.

Over time, the Vatican began to use the smoke as a way to communicate with the foreign world, while maintaining a serious confidentiality of the voting.

Today, despite countless improvements in communication, the Vatican chose to protect the tradition.

“From an ancient times, people in the Bible – the victims of the Bible – the Bible – the Bible and the victims of the Bible – the divine communication,” the University of Birmingham “saw approximately” incense “grains and grains.

“In the Catholic tradition, this religious ritual and the miracle and the miracle, which use the smoke of ‘fog’ fog ‘to his prayers, events aesthetics.”

Prof. Moss also says that the rising smoke is “to enter into people” to enter the people gathered in St. Peter’s Square “as if it is coordinated in secret work.”

The reasons are symbolic, but it requires real-world engineering to work in the 21st century.

Inside the Sistine Chapel, two ovens are temporarily installed temporarily to the skark: to turn on ballots and the other to create smoke signals.

Both furnaces are connected with a small spruce – A pipe inside a chimney that allows you to escape smoke – it takes it with the roof of the rod outside. On Friday, on the roof, keeping his workers on the spot and built the scaffolding and planted the stoves inside.

Built 500 years ago, Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous ceilings in the world. Michelangelo’s frescoes are decorated with smoke signals, and the chimney must be found restrained and securely.

Is a complex process. The maintenance employees use an existing opening or Tite – usually is to create a temporary hatch of a metal like iron or steel. The pipe runs from the stoves from the stoves that emerged with the bent roof from St. Peter’s Square.

Each combination is sealed to prevent leaks and each component is tested. Experts restart smoke tests from smoke tests by ensuring that Backey Backey operation in real time. Even the Vatican firefighters are also involved; in standby mode when it is faulty.

“This is such an accurate process, because something is wrong, it is not only a technical failure,” he becomes an international event, “he said.” It’s not like putting a pipe in a pizza oven. ” Each of the system must be installed without damage to anything. “

This installation is set up a few days before the Cardinals arrive, and the pope is dismantled after being selected.

To ensure that the alarm appears, the Vatican technical staff use the combination of chemical compounds.

According to the BBC, “According to the essence of two special fireworks,” Prof. Mark Lorch, Holl of Chemicals and Biochemistry at Hull University Profry Lorch, BBC.

“A potassium perchlorate for black smoke, anthraken and sulfur mixes, thick, dark smoke.

“For white smoke, the combination of potassium chlorate, lactose and pine rosin, which is clean and pale, Pine Rosin is used.

“In the past, they tried to burn the wet straw to create a dark smoke and dry straw to make a smoke of smoke – but it sometimes caused a mess because it looks gray.”

These chemicals explained that the “cartridges are filled in pre-filled and electronically,” there is no uncertainty.

Adding Bell call – Pope was presented in the selection of Pope XVI – now serves as approval and used alongside the smoke signal.

There are suggestions for the modernization of the system for years: color lights, digital signals or even television sounds. However, the ritual for the Vatican is not just a communication tool – this century is traditionally a moment of durability.

“This is the traditional and privacy, but there is also real theological hehes,” he said.

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