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To: Arlis
It takes the oxygen in about 1100 cubic feet of air to burn one gallon of gasoline. Most fires are limited by the flow of oxygen rather than fuel.

I think it was the engineering department of Purdue which had competitions to quickly light a grill full of charcoal at their annual picnic. The competition was cancelled after they used charcoal, a lit cigarette for ignition and a container of liquid oxygen: the grill disappeared in the resulting fire.

21 posted on 02/12/2014 8:19:20 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: KarlInOhio
Boiler Up! Not just a slogan LOL.


22 posted on 02/12/2014 8:20:54 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Those videos were great! Surely they’ve made it to YouTube by now.

Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBLr_XrooLs

Too bad this was pre-ubiquitous HD cameras.


23 posted on 02/12/2014 8:30:58 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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