Hair...check
Metal...check
Band...check
Straight...???
Posted on 06/27/2015 1:45:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Hair...check
Metal...check
Band...check
Straight...???
Who the heck thought it was okay to dust the crowd with a cloud of some kind of fine powdery substance, especially in the presence of pyrotechnics onstage??? Surely no one who has ever been a fireman, or worked in a grain silo, etc.
It is the same sort of explosion that happens in wheat towers or from coal dust. Same as a fuel air explosive.
Many powdered substances are explosive given enough oxygen. Common baking flour is a good example.
There are runs where the people run through dust bombs thrown at them from the spectators. Doesn’t sound smart to be running (and sucking in lots of air) while people through colored dust at you.
Have to admit - I hadn’t thought of it catching on fire though - I always thought that was more of in a confined space like a silo. But probably wouldn’t have to be.
I grew up in Kansas where there are grain elevators everywhere. In the old days, elevator fires and explosions were not uncommon. By the time I was born, they had worked out the safety regulations and I don’t remember one ever happening. But, boy, I heard the stories.
I remember thinking how unfair it was... You go to work not thinking you were in any kind of particular danger, then BOOM!... Pearly Gates.
It doesn’t necessarily take grain dust to get an explosion. AFAIK, most any dust or powder or small suspended particles of any kind will work, even stuff you don’t normally think of as being combustible. I think what matters is size of the particles, the type of particle, their concentration, the charge on them, the right concentration of air or other gasses, a spark, probably a few other factors (I’m no expert), and you’ve got a very dangerous situation. Like someone else said, it’s the basis of those fuel-air bombs the military has nowadays. It’s also why, for example, you have to be careful about storing gasoline indoors. You’re not worried about the gasoline itself exploding. You’re worried about fumes escaping from the container and creating one of these explosive situations.
Non-dairy creamer explosion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw4ZRqmxOc
Wow, no more coffee shops for me, lol.
I’ve always hated powder coffee creamer. It’s an affront to both man and a God.
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This was actually a “gay pride” event being hosted at the park, along with a “gay model” competition. The confetti that was sprayed over the crowd was to celebrate the ‘rainbow’
You’re not hearing that from the media.
500+ gay pride youth engulfed in flames in Taiwan as Biblical-scale firestorm spontaneously ignites, raining down fire from above
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