From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Mon Aug 23 1999 - 00:30:51 MDT
> Spike Jones wrote:
>
> > Many people have the notion that water can somehow be used as a fuel.
>
> Doug Jones wrote: Actually, water can be a darn good *oxidizer* if the fuel
> is aluminum. This cost me 60 dB of hearing and half the vision in my right
> eye 22 years
> ago...
oooo, owee, Doug. {8-[ Man, it sounds like we are damn lucky you
survived at all: broke your back, trashed yourself with what sounds like
the old thermalite reaction, god knows what else. I survived my chemistry
lab days without serious injury in spite of a reasonable attempt to
manufacture nitroglycerine, right about the same time you had your
accident. I did succeed in making nitrocellulose {8^D (My experimental
rocket with some of that stuff exploded {8^D.) spike
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