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To: Ilaine who wrote (20668)	4/7/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 71178

I used a couple of old glass OJ bottles as a reactor and water bubbler (for cooling and washing the gas stream). The reactor got strong lye, and the occasional cigar of aluminum foil. The bubbler was filled with cold water (ice is good too). The safety hazards are severe - lye is worse for skin, clothes and linoleum than acid. The reactor vessel gets HOT. The fizzing aluminum generates a fog of lye droplets - do not breathe when the jar is or was recently opened. <haack> And of course a big bag of hydrogen carries a certain fire hazard. I would tie a strip of paper to the bag and light the end, then release the bag into the humid dead calm of a suburban summer evening. A coupla hundred feet up, the fire would reach the bag. If I kept the hydrogen as clean as possible, the bag would simply turn inside out on a brief pillow of silent yellow flame, then the shriveled residue would drop in someone's yard. No fences; retrieval for the sake of deniability was easy. If I pumped the lift bag full of as much extra air as it would hold - the ignition event would either be a WHOOSH or even sometimes a BLAM! Cool. <edit> A search on "fux" takes me straight to the Insults Only thread.

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