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To: Blueflag
Burns oxygen, eh? SMH


23 posted on 10/29/2015 8:24:15 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Right Brother

Disclosure: I am a former firefighter, a LONG time ago. I also have a minor in chemistry from a loooooong time ago.

Those signs are posted because normal combustibles in the presence of an enhanced oxygen atmosphere can burn curiously and rapidly. For instance a lit cigarette will burn so rapidly it appear to explode. A struck match goes off like a small fire cracker. Cotton sheets and polyester shirts burn like they are soaked in kerosene.

But it’s the combustibles burning NOT the oxygen.

Oxygen is a reagent in the chemical process of “burning.” Oxygen itself CANNOT BURN.


54 posted on 10/30/2015 4:35:34 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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