[TheForge] old propane tanks

[James Binnion]

Copper Acetylide is Cu2C2, very unstable stuff. You can google quite a bit about it and even see damn fools detonating it on youtube. It caused quite a number of acetylene plant explosions before they quit using copper in those facilities.


On Sep 26, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Ron Childers wrote:

> You must have been in the military- it sounds like you are talking about
> tetramine cu i/e. I
> had an old acetylene generator in 1956. Daddy admonished me not to let
> it get over 15 psi. 
> The calcium carbide looked like whitewash when the calcium carbide was
> depleted
> 

James Binnion
jbin at well.com