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To: sea_urchin who wrote (13956)	5/13/2002 3:59:41 PM
From: russet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81492

I would say the burning fuel and other things will melt the aluminum, this occurs in most of the aircraft fires where aircraft fuel is involved I have seen, including several piston aircraft using aviation gas or automotive gas. Then depending on what chemicals are around the melting Aluminum,...and there can be lots of interesting ones around in a plane,...the aluminum will be oxidized by something to form all sorts of interesting oxides (Al2O3) and salts (powders). For instance, acids certainly have little trouble oxidizing Aluminum especially at high temperatures, where the reaction will be very fast. Many acids will be produced in a airplane fuel fire. The reduced product from acid oxidation of Aluminum metal is Hydrogen gas,...which can be explosive in its own right. One of those papers on fires in planes stated close to the end of the papers that the source of plane fires rarely becomes known,...because the source and everything around it are destroyed completely. http://naca.larc.nasa.gov/reports/1950/naca-rm-e9j19/ I afraid I don't go to the GPM raving lunatic thread, and my experience with E. Charters is, he is wrong as often as he is right,...of course that is a pretty good track record given what the rest of us have (gggggggggggg). I have a couple of airport fire fighter friends,...I can ask them for all the minute details. In the meantime we can continue to bask in the glow of gold,....and have you seen what the Messina mine near you, and SUF.t it's majority shareholder are doing recently?