How to light a grill in 2 seconds
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at
10:21 am
Web classic (circa 1995) of engineers lighting a grill [really fast] with liquid oxygen.
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Filed under: Barbecue Grills
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Pure oxygen (whether liquid or gaseous) is not flammable meaning it does not react with air. However, it reacts violently with flammable substances. The tragic deaths of the Apollo 1 crew and cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko were caused by fires in high-oxygen atmospheres. In the second half of this video, it’s the hot steel that burns (and melts) when coming into contact with the liquid oxygen.
BTW the guy is an idiot for not using any kind of body protection.
Crazy idiots! I hope they burn the whole park.
the title just made me laugh
I’m guessing this was somewhere in the deep south or the far northeast.
This vid predates Youtube by quite abit. It was done by a Professor at Purdue University to amuse his research group. The city of Lafayette, IN. eventually passed a law against it.
The grass in the video doesn’t catch fire at all. It simply vaporizes. Leaves nothing but soil afterwords. The smoldering cigarette or a burning briquette is the key. If you simply soaked the briquettes in LOX without an ignition source, they would explode.
George knew exactly what he was doing. This isn’t some pyromaniac out for fun.
Thier Chemistry Students.
that got hot! I bet 3000-4000 degrees
very very nice
LOL this is cool
this is also how you can start californian wild fires.
This video was originally on a link on the Library’s website, unfortunately the ATF said you have a bomb here, remove the link LOL
Central Indiana isn’t exactly the “deep south!” ROFLMAO
that ought to cook a few burgers
it does its hard to see its a low qul cam so
that’s incredible
Goodness me, Mr. Gobel!
You are my hero! You can light my BBQ anytime!
Just make sure you do not accidentally bbq my faithful water-buffalo “Steve”- it is forbidden to bbq cows in my land.
This is clearly explained in my mrs-gupta web-sight!
There’s another clip of the same group trying the experiment with a cheap, table-top grill. They again succeeded in lighting it within 3 seconds–and also vaporized most of the grill!
Good stuff.
Genial, das ist so zieblich das Dümmste was ich je gesehen habe, mit Abstand.
Web classic indeed, I think this might have been the first video I ever saw on the net.
ämmmm AMERICANS ?!
i have a question where is the grill?
what kind of grade C would this make if this was used to speed up the C pyro/blackpowder grade C ?
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