[time-nuts] Re: hydrogen rich environment and oscillators

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Steve Hendrix, P.E. via time-nuts writes:

> Keep in mind, though, that if hydrogen gets loose it can burn, but if 
> pure oxygen gets loose, EVERYTHING will burn. And as others said, a tiny 
> quantity only has so much energy available.

There is a very informative monograph from NASA (sorry, dont have a link
at hand) about their early experiences with cryogenic rocket fuel.

A particular interesting episode is where they have a leak in a LOX tank,
and then the firetruck of the emergency response catches fire because
they are downwind.

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