@baltimoretrainworks posted:Gunrunner, I don't know if you've ever read the book Ignition it's about the development of rocket fuels and oxidizers. One of the storys relates about testing liquid hydrogen peroxode as an oxdizer, long story short, the 911 call recording has the caller telling the operator in a rather terrified voice "THE CONCRETE"S ON FIRE THE CONCRETES ON FIRE!"
When I was sixteen, I decided to see how magnesium burns. We took a chunk of magnesium rod outside the hanger at the airport and lit it with an oxy acetylene torch. BOY, does it burn! However, I hadn't given much though about how to put it out, turns out that's next to impossible! We finally buried it in a huge mound of sand and eventually it did extinguish it. What a mess, it made a trench in the concrete and when it got to the blacktop, it really made a mess! My father was less than impressed!
