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- From: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: Gold dust a fire hazard?
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 06:43:10 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1du09jINNq08@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov13.144439.2924@fid.morgan.com>
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- In article <1992Nov13.144439.2924@fid.morgan.com> joec@fid.morgan.com (Joe Collins) writes:
- >>to get a feeling for burning metals, one need
- >>not look any further than the effects of the exocet missles on some of the
- >>vessel hulls in the Falklands war.
- >The UK ship had an aluminum body and Aluminum is a fairly reactive metal.
-
- People in sci.military who should know say that the Sheffield's superstructure
- was steel, not aluminum, and it did not burn. The flammable interior of
- the ship burned as a result of the missile explosion, but the metal
- superstructure did not burn. In 1975, the USS Belknap, which did have an
- aluminum superstructure, suffered a severe fire; the superstructure melted,
- but did not burn.
-
- Ken Shirriff shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
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