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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.pyrotechnics
- Subject: Re: H2O2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.212927.13891@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 21:29:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.003009.16321@cs.rochester.edu> <1993Jan21.152605.22932@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> <1993Jan21.220757.16035@cs.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.220757.16035@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.152605.22932@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black) writes:
- >
- >>> Hydrogen peroxide boils at 150 C, so you can concentrate it by
- >>> distillation (probably under a partial vacuum).
- >
- >> You can also kill yourself doing this.
- >
- >I thought that went without saying in this group. Oh well.
- >
- >Hot hydrogen peroxide can experience runaway decomposition or
- >detonation, but I was thinking of vacuum distillation. I have in
- >front of me the following quote from Sarner, "Propellant Chemistry":
- >
- > "Hydrogen peroxide of 98-100% is immune to mechanical impact such as
- > drop-weight or rifle-fire tests, and it does not appear possible to set up a
- > self-propagating detonation through the action of blasting caps. Definite
- > explosive effects have been noted only under the influence of powerful
- > booster charges combined with a high degree of confinement."
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- I'm amazed that this is in print. I've met a guy who was short
- two hands due to a H2O2 detonation. He was working in a chemistry
- lab in the UC system and was carrying {either a tray with
- bottles on it, or one bottle in each hand} concentrated H2O2.
- It went off of its own accord and he got two steel hooks.
-
- It may not be reliably detonated, but it also cannot be reliably
- NOT detonated...
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