Darwin AwardsBluffboy says: My mate cheated death and burned his eyebrows off looking down the barrel of a potato gun. Tell us about your brushes with the Grim Reaper through stupidity.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:01)
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Unlucky!We've been doing one a week for a few months for the undergrads. Even made a very nice chemical lighter for it thast gives us plenty of 'fuck-off quick' time.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 16 Feb 2009, 12:29,
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Is itPotassium permanganate and glycerol, by any chance? Works wonders, that does.
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NahTis iron oxide and aluminium, usually ignited with magnesium ribbon as it needs a VERY high temperature to ignite.
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I think that they were referring to the chemical lighterrather than the thermite reaction itself.
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yeptis powdered rust amd aluminium, mixed nicely and catalysed by a high temp fuse such as magnesium ribbon. will burn through just about anything.
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