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From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.physics
Subject: Re: Hydrogen (isn't flammible?!?)
Message-ID: <1995@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30-Mar-85 13:54:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 30 13:54:00 1985
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Reply-To: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Organization: Burroughs Corp. - SDG/Devon
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Summary: 

>> The Hindenburg used helium instead of hydrogen. Helium is 
>> considerable more flammable. Germany had used it because
>> there was an embargo of hydrogen against it.
>> 					Bob Crowley
>>

Come, come now.  A little high school chemistry, folks.  HYDROGEN, the
lightest element, is highly reactive in the presence of oxygen.  Remember
what happens when you combine some 'H's and some 'O's and a little heat.  You
get water and an explosion.  The Hindenburg was full of hydrogen, not
helium.  Helium is a non-flammable gaseous element.

-- 
Tom Albrecht 		Burroughs Corp.
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