[TheForge] Fun with thermite anyone?

[Michael Horgan]

Well sure.  That's pretty implicit in the chemical formula. That's 
why we used the big co2 fire extinguisher in the Chem lab at the high 
school to put the beaker in a dry ice bath...   (I'm pretty sure the 
statute of limitations has run out now.  ;)
At 03:31 PM 4/24/2006, you wrote:


>On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Jerry Smith wrote:
>
>(snip)
>>Next some one will want to try blast fusion of unlike
>>metals with nitric acid and glycerin, and they don't
>>understand the process of blending the stuff.
>>
>>Jerry
>One piece of advice for those that want to mess with the nitric and 
>the glycerin, the heat of formation is greater than the heat of 
>detonation. As in just mixing them together produces enough heat to set it off.
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