- 1. Oxygen Burning?? (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 07:14:29 +0000
- Here's hoping for some help from the chemist-types on the list. I've always assumed that pure oxygen is extremely flammable. If this is true, what is the chemical reaction for the combustion process?
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- 2. Re: Oxygen Burning?? (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 08:42:23 -0400
- On 4/11/98 3:14 AM so and so Scott Gardner said. (And I quote) Water H20 Larry B. Macy, Ph.D. macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu System Manager/Administrator Neuropsychiatry Section Department of Psychiat
- /html/mgs/1998-04/msg00446.html (7,740 bytes)
- 3. Re: Oxygen Burning?? (score: 1)
- Author: "George (Pete) Tolleson" <gtoll@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 09:54:54 -0400
- An easy confusion. Oxygen isn't flammable at all. Combustion is the fast oxidation reaction, in which oxygen combines rapidly with another (flammable) substance. (For example, water (H2O) is the prod
- /html/mgs/1998-04/msg00447.html (7,154 bytes)
- 4. Re: Oxygen Burning?? (score: 1)
- Author: "John J. Peloquin" <peloquin@mamba.bio.uci.edu>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 10:43:38 -0700 (PDT)
- Technically, Oxygen itself is not "flammable" if by flammable one means can catch fire by combining with oxygen. However, in the prescence of oxygen, almost anything organic (containing carbon) will
- /html/mgs/1998-04/msg00450.html (8,063 bytes)
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