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To: BereanBrain

The light metal lithium, once ignited, burns in an out-of-control manner, at insanely high temperatures.

The normal means fire companies use to put out domestic fires, dousing with large quantities of water, is commonly ineffective with light metal fires such as lithium. This is because light metal fires burn so hot that they can yank the oxygen they need (to continue burning) straight out of the H2O water molecule.

And that’s the true meaning of Christmas, Charlie Brown.


53 posted on 12/30/2023 6:00:57 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

Lithium ignites at 180 degrees C.

Steel at 704 degrees C.

Gasoline burns at 1,950 C

If you believe your bunk about burning oxygen from water, then it would happen when a gas car burns, as gasoline burns at 1,950 C and Steel burns at 704 C.
So then what happens to water than since the Temp is SOOO much higher?

“burns in an out of control manner” means you don’t know high school chemistry.
That’s not science, it’s emotion.


56 posted on 12/30/2023 11:33:36 AM PST by BereanBrain
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