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To: ScreamingFist

Good lock with your work. My first job out of college was as the head chemist and engineer at an aircraft parts plating operation. Nasty stuff. Oh, I mentioned using an industrial detergent. If you do so, make sure that it does not foam. Foam will trap both hydrogen and oxgen and makes for a big, big boom.


60 posted on 01/02/2009 2:36:40 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike; ScreamingFist

“If you do so, make sure that it does not foam.
Foam will trap both hydrogen and oxgen and makes for a big, big boom.”
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Oh, yes, to be sure.
I once ran the QC and environmental dept. at a large industrial chrome-plating operation.
More often than I care to admit,
we had hydrogen foam explosions in the plating room.
Certainly makes you want to go shange your underware....


110 posted on 01/02/2009 5:23:14 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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