On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> --- 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. :-(
It has been archived (with pictures, even) on the WayBack Machine at
http://web.archive.org/web/20021003203611/http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/~ghg/
I must say, the grill lighting is pretty damn impressive.
Pat
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Received on Thu Jun 12 2003 - 16:13:00 BST