--- Alexander Schreiber <als_at_thangorodrim.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:51:43PM -0400, TeoZ wrote:
> > I worked at a company for over a year that did work with
> > liquid oxygen... Liquid o2 spilled on anything organic and
> > allowed to seep into it can be very explosive...
>
> Combustible substances (saw dust, cotton, ...) soaked with liquid oxygen
> were sometimes used as explosive (called oxyliquit or somesuch).
There's some comments to that effect on George Gobel's web page about
accelerating charcoal grill lighting with LOX... He cautions the
experimentacious reader to have an ignition source (he uses a cigar,
IIRC) present amongst the briquettes to avoid turning them into
latent detonation devices.
His page _used to be_ at
http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/~ghg/ , but there's
a comment now from earlier this year about its removal. :-(
-ethan
Received on Thu Jun 12 2003 - 15:33:00 BST