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To: bossmechanic

Erm, no. Aluminum + Iron oxide (from the building)= thermite, which burns hot enough to dissociate water into its atomic components. At that point, the oxygen just contributes to the burn. I’m not a chemist, but I know enough about thermite and oxidizers to posit that there might be something to this theory. Metal fires are very real, and can be really ugly things.


24 posted on 09/22/2011 12:18:13 AM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: Little Pig

Quite possible, an exothermic reaction.
Interesting.


26 posted on 09/22/2011 12:28:37 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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