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To: Krowbar who wrote (416811)	6/19/2003 5:49:17 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 769670

<<What does oxygen combine with. Iron carbon hydrogen nitrogen and so many combinations.>> Years ago I read a warning about using a certain degreaser with steel wool. One spark and the chemical combines with the iron and it goes up like burning black gunpowder. Interesting about starting a grill with oxygen. I couldn't find the pictures- From an Indianapolis Star article posted at Goble's Web site: Goble's claim to fame is that he's the fastest man alive at lighting a charcoal burner. He got briquettes burning in three seconds by using liquid oxygen. After charcoal is placed in a burner, Goble has someone toss a lighted cigarette into the briquettes. "Then I pour liquid oxygen from a three-gallon galvanized bucket hanging from a pole about 10 feet long," he said. Goble, 42, got the idea after cooking out with engineer pals for several years. "It always took half an hour to 40 minutes to get the thing going, so we started using hair driers, a vacuum on low and propane torches to get it going," he said. "Then we took an oxygen tank like the kind scuba divers use and blew it through a 10-foot-long pipe. We were grilling in 30 seconds. Every year we got it faster until we got it down to a few seconds with so much pressure that it blew the briquettes out of the grill." Local and state fire officials are not impressed. "The fire department is really ticked off, so I'm not going to do it any more," he said.