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18-01-2006, 03:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:

Bit of a brown trouser job really: ...

!!! Ruddy hell!

It was a good deal hotter than Hell, and attracted a lot of civvy
tenders and a flock of ambulances. Nearby shops were evacuated, but the
poor bloke across the roadway from the furnace had to remain to keep the
hydrogen supply running.

The civvy fire brigades never got involved unless we couldn't cope, and
in my time (on my shift) they never had to intervene. On another
occasion I remember six tenders waiting to pounce while about six of us
alighted from our our Land Rover tender and fought a fire in the
Titanium shop for six hours. I missed my lunchbreak and teabreak that
day innit.

There's not a lot you can do with titanium except isolate it by raking
it onto a bed of titanium oxide and covering it with tthe same stuff -
which fortunately was one of our products. If you drop a large enough
burning lump of titanium into a bucket of water, it continues to burn at
the bottom - vapourising the water to steam and reducing that to
hydrogen, which then burns on top - two fires for the price of one.

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Rusty
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