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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: boiling water with mains current (was Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle)
Message-ID: <11989@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 26 Feb 90 19:24:10 GMT
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Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
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The biggest "oops I should have thought of that FIRST" fireball I ever
saw was when the guy at a former workplace threw his dying car battery
into the dumpster - which just happened to have a good foot of aluminum,
magnesium, graphite, and steel machining spew in it.

The resulting fire burned right through the bottom of the dumpster and
several inches down into the pavement below before the company fire
department arrived and foamed it to death.

The heat, smoke, and smell was incredible.
	- Brian