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To: Ghengis

No, acetone is used to reduce the pressure of the acetylene for a given tank capacity. High pressure acetylene is dangerously explosive, but you don't need a high pressure to get a decent amount of it in tank if you first fill the tank with wood chips soaked in acetone. Those tanks are only ~300 psi, as opposed to 2500 or 3000 psi for cylinders of oxygen, argon, nitrogen. (Propane liquefies under fairly low pressure, but it isn't explosive anyway. Acetylene doesn't.)


127 posted on 03/22/2005 2:59:46 PM PST by coloradan (Hence, etc.)
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To: coloradan
No, acetone is used to reduce the pressure of the acetylene for a given tank capacity. High pressure acetylene is dangerously explosive, but you don't need a high pressure to get a decent amount of it in tank if you first fill the tank with wood chips soaked in acetone. Those tanks are only ~300 psi, as opposed to 2500 or 3000 psi for cylinders of oxygen, argon, nitrogen. (Propane liquefies under fairly low pressure, but it isn't explosive anyway. Acetylene doesn't.)

Correct. I was trying to say it in shorthand and misstated. Acetylene will blow on its own if not dissolved into the acetone.

138 posted on 03/22/2005 6:16:00 PM PST by Ghengis (Alexander was a wuss!)
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