Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.physics Subject: Re: Hydrogen (isn't flammible?!?) Message-ID: <1302@shark.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 22:22:37 EST Article-I.D.: shark.1302 Posted: Thu Mar 28 22:22:37 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 31-Mar-85 02:42:21 EST References: <608@vortex.UUCP> <491@spp2.UUCP> <5336@utzoo.UUCP> <187@ihlpm.UUCP> <708@mhuxt.UUCP> Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.misc:7701 net.physics:2347 Summary: In article <708@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (jeff sonntag) writes: >> Quoting Bob Crowley >> > quoting Laura Creighton >> > I saw a film somewhere (whose name I forget) about using hydrogen as >> > a fuel. It seems that John Q. Public isn't ready for it -- street >> > interviews showed that everybody thought of the Hindenburg. >> > Laura Creighton >> > utzoo!laura >> 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 >> ihlpm!crowley > Wrong! Helium is completely non-burnable, as its outer electron shell >is completely filled, it is a noble gas, extremely reluctant to combine >with anything, under any circumstances. As the Hindenburg blew up, it >must have been filled with something flammible, presumably hydrogen. The Hindenburg was a hydrogen filled dirigible. Helium was too expensive to use for that purpose. Hydrogen is plentiful, cheap, and Germany was a major industrial power. They MADE THEIR OWN hydrogen! (Well, extracted it, anyway.) What kind of embargo could possibly succeed against a producer of the prohibited substance? Hutch