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Old 07-27-2007   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aixguy View Post
Just to clear up a miss conseption ... Oxygen is NOT Flamable! It however, is required for Oxidation to happen (fancy word for fire) So, put Lots of what is need to start a fire in a place and add a little heat and boom stuf that normaly does not burn goes up like kindling. If levels of pure O2 get go high you get spontanious combustion.. so truth be told O2 does not burn but causes things around it to burn.
Oxidation is also a fancy word for RUST, I use oxygen-acet. tanks for welding and cutting steel for a number of years and did not start any fires with the oxygen except on purpose, do you know that water will burn
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