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To: Elsie

Not always a hydrocarbon. That’s a Class A or Class B fire. Class D fires are burning metals like Aluminum and Magnesium.

76 posted on 10/31/2015 4:16:16 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)

To: Blueflag

True; I’d forgotten.

78 posted on 10/31/2015 4:37:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Blueflag

I have one of these;

and I did NOT know this--> Once ignited, it is difficult to extinguish, being able to burn in nitrogen (forming magnesium nitride), carbon dioxide (forming magnesium oxide, and carbon) and water (forming magnesium oxide and hydrogen). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium

79 posted on 10/31/2015 4:43:55 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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