Date:    Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:36:28 +0300
From:    "Peter L. Peres" <plp@ACTCOM.CO.IL>
Subject: Re: [OT]:  RE: [EE]: Fuel tank sensor / real world solutions

Actually, fine steel wool burns quite nicely (even sparkingly) in plain air.
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Brendan Moran wrote:
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>> Steel wool?  Magnesium?
>>
>> You might want to point out that they should use real steel - common
>> 'steel wool' may simply make the problem worse as its made of fine spun
>> magnesium - rather flammable and difficult to put out.
>
>Really?  I've lit of steel wool on fire by passing a moderate electric
>current through it, and never gotten a flame that would make me think
it was
>mgnesium...

<OTOH steel wool burns QUITE STRONGLY in oxygen. Sparkingly in fact.

<Peter


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