Sun, HP "scrap" (???)

woodelf bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Fri Jun 1 18:30:13 CDT 2007


Chuck Guzis wrote:

> See, for instance:
> 
> http://www.humboldt.edu/~serc/h2safety.html
> 
> I remember from my misspent college summers working as an 
> instrumentation tech at a steel mill that one needed a special 
> detector to see a hydrogen flame.  Those of us who worked at the 
> hydrogen-generating plant were warned about this.  Hydrogen in 
> quantity is nasty stuff--we had to check our toolbelts, matches, 
> cigarette lighters and any steel pocket contents at the gate, lest we 
> would cuase a spark and ignite the stuff (the range of explosive 
> mixtures of H2 and O2 is very wide).  I learned how blunt a 
> sparkproof screwdriver could get in no time at all.

Sigh ... I thought I typed *not* in their.

> Cheers,
> Chuck




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