Re: alfa-digest V8 #865-hindenburg go boom!

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not to mention that hydrogen burns with the almost-invisible blue, somewhat 
ala alcohol, flame. I'm sure we all remember the incredible bright-orange 
color of the burning blimp.

  Felix

At 04:02 PM 6/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>         --Mark
>
>*in the case of the Hindenburg the skin of the blimp was doped with a
>varnish containing powdered aluminum and iron oxide.   If you've ever
>made your own fireworks you'd know just how interesting powdered
>aluminum can be.   The hydrogen burned off almost instantly, the part
>the made it so memorable was the burning skin.
>
>see more at http://engineer.ea.ucla.edu/releases/blimp.htm

Jean Skeels, Felix Schmidt
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